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

[Fredrik Lundh]

metaperl wrote:

> Nothing. There is also nothing wrong with
> 
> re.match('blah', somestring)
> 
> but it does read as well as
> 
> re.atstartof('blah', something)

yuck.

> and the counterpart for EOS is not there.

sure is; it's spelled:

     re.match('.*blah$', somestring)

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