searching exact word in python

Question

Found the hugh bothwell answer

Python - Check If Word Is In A String

quite useful but now i want this to happen

 findWholeWord('object')('object test')    # -> <match object>
 findWholeWord('object')('object-group')                   # -> None

anybody?

Answer 1

(?:^|(?<=\s))object(?=\s|$)

You can use this regex with re.findall to check if it is there or not.

Something like

if re.findall(r"(?:^|(?<=\s))object(?=\s|$)",test_str):
    print "yes present"

Answer 2

use regex:

'object(?=[\W\D\S\s]*?)'

This should work.