I have a simple question that I can workaround, but I'd like to find the Pythonic way of doing it. I'm using Python 3.1.2. re.match() will return a match object if the regex is found and None if not.

I’m a big fan of Python — the open source programming language. In case you’re wondering, Python is indeed named after the BBC comedy group Monty Python. The language was created around 1990 by Guido ...