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 '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list