How do you print a string after it's been searched for an RE?

[John Salerno]

On Jun 23, 4:47 pm, "Thomas L. Shinnick" <tshin... at prismnet.com>
wrote:
> There is also
>        print(match_obj.string)
> which gives you a copy of the string searched.  See end of section
> 6.2.5. Match Objects

I tried that, but the only time I wanted the string printed was when
there *wasn't* a match, so the match object was a NoneType.