regexp partial matching, or hitEnd

[Mark Lawrence]

On 05/04/2012 08:29, Константин Куликов wrote:
> I want something like this in python :
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2526756/can-java-util-regex-pattern-do-partia...<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2526756/can-java-util-regex-pattern-do-partial-matches>
>
> First you have to call one of the standard methods to apply the regex,
> like matches() or find().
> If that returns false, you can use the hitEnd() method to find out if some
> longer string could have matched:

Dark satanic writing snipped :)

> So. Is there already some function like hitEnd() in any python regexp
> library?
> Or if not, maybe it's could be added in the feature to the standart re
> module? :)
>

More likely to go into the new regex module that's on pypi.  Talking of 
which is this going into Python 3.3, I see it's mentioned in PEP398 but 
can't find any mention in the Python 3.3 What's New docs, or have I 
simply missed something?

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Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.