startswith() and endswith() for re's would be more intuitive

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

metaperl wrote:
> I just finished answering a question in #python because someone tried
> to match using ... well.. match()
> but did not realize that match() is actually startswith() for regexps.

Yet someone else that failed to read the Fine Manual(tm).

> I suggest:
> re.compile('blah').atstartof(string)
> re.compile('blah').atendof(string)

What's wrong with:
re.search(r'^blah', somestring)
re.search(r'blah$', somestring)


-- 
bruno desthuilliers
python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'onurb at xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"