kj <no.em...@please.post> writes: > For a recovering Perl-head like me it is difficult to understand > why Python's re module offers both match and search. Why not just > use search with a beginning-of-string anchor?
I need re.match when parsing the whole string. In that case I never want to search through the string, but process the whole string with some regulat expression, for example when tokenizing. For example: pos = 0 while pos != len(s): match = TOKEN_RE.match(s, pos) if match: process_token(match) pos = match.end() else: raise ParseError('invalid syntax at position %d' % pos) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list