Simple Python Regex Find pattern

I have a sentence. I want to find all occurrences of a word that start with a specific character in that sentence. I am very new to programming and Python, but from the little I know, this sounds like a Regex question.

What is the pattern match code that will let me find all words that match my pattern?

Many thanks in advance,

Brock

How do you search for a regex pattern at the beginning of a string in Python?

re.match() function of re in Python will search the regular expression pattern and return the first occurrence. The Python RegEx Match method checks for a match only at the beginning of the string. So, if a match is found in the first line, it returns the match object.

How do I search for multiple patterns in Python?

Search multiple words using regex Use | (pipe) operator to specify multiple patterns.

import re
print re.findall(r'\bv\w+', thesentence)

will print every word in the sentence that starts with 'v', for example.

Using the split method of strings, as another answer suggests, would not identify words, but space-separated chunks that may include punctuation. This re-based solution does identify words (letters and digits, net of punctuation).