[docs] regular expression documentation bug

Alexandros Marinos al3xgr at gmail.com
Mon Nov 15 14:03:16 CET 2010


In the page http://docs.python.org/library/re.html, section 7.2.1, it says:

'$'
Matches the end of the string [...] foo matches both ‘foo’ and
‘foobar’, while the regular expression foo$ matches only ‘foo’.

this last sentence looked odd, so I tried it:

print re.match('foo$', 'foobar')

output: "None"

I think a better example would be something like 'foobarfoo'.

Regards,
Alexandros


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