Check if a variable is SRE_Match

Question

I need to check if a variable is a regular expression match object.

print(type(m)) returns something like that: <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x000000000345BE68>

but when I import _sre and try to execute type(m) is SRE_Match the exception NameError: name 'SRE_Match' is not defined is raised.

Answer 1

You can do

SRE_MATCH_TYPE = type(re.match("", ""))

at the start of the program, and then

type(m) is SRE_MATCH_TYPE

each time you want to make the comparison.