On 2009-02-06 18:23, Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote:
I'm confused by this behaviour:
import re
regex = re.compile('foo')
match = regex.match('whatfooever')
In my experience with regular expressions, regex should have found a
match. However, in this case regex.match() returns None. Why is that?
What am I missing?
http://docs.python.org/library/re#re.RegexObject.match
Basically, regex.match() tries to apply the regexp to the beginning of the
string. Use regex.search() to search for a match later in the string.
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