Maybe you want r'\b'. From 'pydoc sre':
\b Matches the empty string, but only at the start or end of a word.
import re
r = re.compile( r'\btest\b' )
print r.findall("testy")
print r.findall(" testy ")
print r.findall(" test ")
print r.findall("test")
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