[Tutor] Regular Expression Misunderstanding

[Steve Nelson]

On 7/14/06, John Fouhy <john at fouhy.net> wrote:

> >>> m = re.match(...)
> >>> dir(m)
>
> It will tell you what attributes the match object has.

Useful - thank you.

I am now confuse on this:

I have a file full of lines beginning with the letter "b".  I want a
RE that will return the whole line if it begins with b.

I find if I do eg:

>>> m = re.search("^b", "b spam spam spam")
>>> m.group()
'b'

How do I get it to return the whole line if it begins with a b?

S.