Usage

Python regular expressions are powerful, but the language’s lack of an en passant (in passing) assignment requires a preparatory motion and then a test:

import re

match = re.search(pattern, some_string)
if match:
    print match.group(1)

With simplere, you can do it in fewer steps:

from simplere import *

if match / re.search(pattern, some_string):
    print match[1]

In addition to its own classes, from simplere import * imports both the standard re module and the match object so you don’t have to.