在Perl中==是否等效于Python中的re.match？

Question

I'm trying to replicate Perl Fathom in Python. This step corrects the syllable count for some word combinations. Is =~ equivalent to re.match in Python? re.match only looks for the first instance. Thank you!

 @SubSyl = (
           'cial',
           'tia',
           'cius',
           'cious',
           'giu',              
           'ion',
           'iou',
           'sia$',
           '.ely$',             
           '[^td]ed$',          
          );

 foreach (@SubSyl) {
          $syl-- if $word =~ /$_/;
        }

Answer 1

=~ is the binding operator. It can bind a match, substitution, or transliteration. I guess only the first one could be equivalent to matching in Python, but it seems you need re.search instead, as matching with // is not anchored at the beginning of the string.

Answer 2

Certainly not re.match() . It's a bit of a gotcha, but re.match matches pattern only starting at the beginning of the string.

If zero or more characters at the beginning of string match the regular expression pattern, return a corresponding match object. Return None if the string does not match the pattern; note that this is different from a zero-length match.

re.search() is more likely what you are looking for (unless you regex patter happens to always match beginning of the string).