re.match python

Question

Hello i have a little problem with the re.match function.

import re
word = input()

if re.match(word, "gl"):
print("Match")
else:
print("No match")

this code does not work, it outputs "No match" every time even if the caracters "g" and "l" are in the input string.
how can i make it work?
thanks for your help
this is the question:
You are playing a word game with your friends, and are asked for a word starting with "gl".
Write a program that takes the word as input and outputs "Match" if it starts with required characters, and "No match" if it doesn't.

Answer 1

Try
if re.match("gl",word):

Answer 2

Look at the documentation again: it is match(substring, string), you passed the arguments the wrong way round.

However, you don't need regular expressions for this task. You could simply compare the first 2 characters to "gl"

Answer 3

thanks for your help, it worked!