[Python-Dev] string.find() again (was Re: timsort for jython)

[Greg Ewing]

jepler@unpythonic.net:

> Surely the re is the thing that expresses a set of strings ...
>     string in re
> would be the same as
>     re.match(string)
> 
> Oh, so
>     re in string
> would be
>     re.search(string)
> right?

That distinction might just be a tad too subtle...

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