find the index of a pattern occurred in a string

[RaZe]

Hi,

I am absolutely a beginner in Python. How can I find an index of a regular expression pattern if it matches within a string? For example a string: 'abc:def' and I want to get the index of ':' (colon) using the regular expression such as r'[^\w\s]. JAVA supports regular expression in the version of 'indexOf ()' function. How these could be done in Python?

Thanks.

[bvdet]

Use match object methods start() and end() to determine the starting and ending index numbers of the matched substring.