Examples

#re.search()

>>> sentence = 'This is a sample string'
>>> bool(re.search(r'this', sentence, flags=re.I))
True
>>> bool(re.search(r'xyz', sentence))
False

#re.findall()

>>> re.findall(r'\bs?pare?\b', 'par spar apparent spare part pare')
['par', 'spar', 'spare', 'pare']
>>> re.findall(r'\b0\*[1-9]\d{2,}\b', '0501 035 154 12 26 98234')
['0501', '154', '98234']

#re.finditer()

>>> m_iter = re.finditer(r'[0-9]+', '45 349 651 593 4 204')
>>> [m[0] for m in m_iter if int(m[0]) < 350]
['45', '349', '4', '204']

#re.split()

>>> re.split(r'\d+', 'Sample123string42with777numbers')
['Sample', 'string', 'with', 'numbers']

#re.sub()

>>> ip_lines = "catapults\nconcatenate\ncat"
>>> print(re.sub(r'^', r'\* ', ip_lines, flags=re.M))
* catapults
* concatenate
* cat

#re.compile()

>>> pet = re.compile(r'dog')
>>> type(pet)
<class '\_sre.SRE\_Pattern'>
>>> bool(pet.search('They bought a dog'))
True
>>> bool(pet.search('A cat crossed their path'))
False