Dear All, I'm looking for a function which, given a regexp re and and a string str, returns whether re won't match any string starting with str. (so it would always return False if str is "" or if str itself matches re -- but that are only the easy cases).
I have the vague feeling that the internal workings of the regexp matcher can answer the question, but that there's no way to get this result from Python code. Any ideas or prior art on how to get this function? Regards, Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
