Regular expression to match a #

[Duncan Booth]

John Machin wrote:

>> Alternatively for C style #includes search for r'^\s*#\s*include\b'.
> 
> Search for r'^something' can never be better/faster than match for 
> r'something', and with a dopey implementation of search [which
> Python's re is NOT] it could be much worse. So please don't tell
> newbies to search for r'^something'.
> 
Search for r'^something' is always better than searching for r'something' 
when the spec requires the search to match only at the start of a line (on 
the principle that code that works is better than code which doesn't).

It appears that this may be something the original poster wanted, so I 
stand by my suggestion.