> If you want to anchor the regex at the start position 'pos' then use > the 'match' method instead.
The wickedly problem is that matching at position 'pos' is not a requirement, its an option. Look again at my 2nd example, the r'(\=|.)...' part, which (of course wrongly) assumes that \= means 'match at the beginning of the search'. Before the match I am really interested in, there is the start of the search, OR there is any character. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
