another newbie question - regex

[Frank Niessink]

Jacek Pop?awski <jp at ulgo.koti.com.pl> wrote:

> then why:

>>>> print re.search(s,".*")
> None
>>>> print re.match(s,".*")
> None


Try reverse the arguments:

>>> import re
>>> s = 'Hi there!'
>>> m = re.search(".*", s)
>>> m.group()
'Hi there!'


Cheers, Frank
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