Question

I have something like

store(s)

ending line like "1 store(s)".
I want to match it using Python regular expression.

I tried something like re.match('store\(s\)$', text)
but it’s not working.

This is the code I tried:

import re

s = '1 store(s)'
if re.match('store\(s\)$', s):
    print('match')

Answer 1

In more or less direct reply to your comment

Try this

import re
s = '1 stores(s)'
if re.match('store\(s\)$',s):
    print('match')

The solution is to use re.search instead of re.match as the latter tries to match the whole string with the regexp while the former just tries to find a substring inside of the string that does match the expression.