another newbie question - regex

[Jacek Popławski]

Sorry, I have another question... 

"." - matches any character
"*" - is 0 or more repetition 

so ".*" - matches everything?

then why:

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

?

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