[Tutor] correction - was: Splitting by word boundaries

Michael Janssen Janssen at rz.uni-frankfurt.de
Fri Aug 15 00:12:00 EDT 2003


On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Michael Janssen wrote:

[correcting myself]

> Note that re.match doesn't return None if nothing is found but ''
> (unlike re.search)

This is wrong: re.match returns indeed None if the string does not
match the pattern. I have tricked myself using a single & silly
testcase (and not reading the docs).

Michael



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