Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > 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)
I think, since he even said himself that "match() is actually startswith() for regexps", that he isn't complaining about the lack of this feature, just that he wants a name change. Otherwise I'm not sure what he wants. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list