search¶

getmac.utils.search(regex, text, group_index=0, flags=0)[source]¶

Search for a regular expression in a string, and return the specified group. This is thin wrapper around re.search() with some error handling.

Parameters:

regex (str) – regular expression
text (str) – data to search
group_index (int) – index of value in the groupdict to return, if there are multiple groups in the regex
flags (int) – flags to re functions, e.g. re.IGNORECASE

Return type:

Optional[str]

Returns:

The result, or None if the parsing failed or nothing was specified to search.