inconsistency? Re: Boy do REs ever suck sometimes...

[Roman Suzi]

I think the following behaviour of re module is incorrect:

>>> re.match("^(123)($)", "123\n").group(1, 2)
('123', '')

If $ matches \n, then why doesn't it include it to the
group?

Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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