re.match versus re.findall

[JerryB]

Hi,
I have a string like this:

invalidStr = "192.168.*.1"

I want to be sure I don't get a * followed by a number, i.e. I want
invalidStr to be invalid. So I do:

numberAfterStar = re.compile(r'\*.*\d')

Now, here's the fun:

If I run:
if numberAfterStar.findall(invalidStr):
    print "Found it with findall!"

it prints, if I run:

if numberAfterStar.match(invalidStr):
    print "Found it with match!"

it doesn't.
Why does findall finds a match it but match doesn't?

Thanks!
Jerry