Please some one tell me the meaning of this sentence>>>> in description

Question

"If it does, match returns an object representing the match, if not, it returns None. "

This is from regular expression. Here i didn't understand that "it does" refers to whom ?

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Answer 1

Amit Ranjan Sahoo That link doesn't load for me.

I'm assuming "it does" refers to a match existing for the given regex pattern on a given string value.

Answer 2

Amit Ranjan Sahoo Here, the match() function returns a match object if the string matches the regex pattern. Else, it returns None.

P.S. None is also an object, an instance of the NoneType class.