re.match

[Ken Seehof]

re.match tests whether or not a string -matches- a regular expression.
re.search -searches- a string for the first occurrence of a regular
expression.

"Is this a dead parrot?" vs "Does anyone know where my parrot is?"

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
To: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: re.match


> Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> >     Hey people. Could someone explain the purpose of the match function
in the
> > re module? If it's only difference from search is to match at the
beginning of
> > the line, why does it exist? That's what the ^ in the regexp is for.
>
> no, it's not.  read the documentation again.
>
> Cheers /F
>
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