I am using python 2.7.6 but I also tried on python 3.7.3. On Thursday, September 19, 2019, Pradeep Patra <smilesonisa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Beginning of the string. But I tried removing that as well and it still > could not find it. When I tested at www.regex101.com and it matched > successfully whereas I may be wrong. Could you please help here? > > On Thursday, September 19, 2019, David <bouncingc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 17:51, Pradeep Patra <smilesonisa...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > pattern=re.compile(r'^my\-dog$') >> > matches = re.search(mystr) >> > >> > In the above example both cases(match/not match) the matches returns >> "None" >> >> Hi, do you know what the '^' character does in your pattern? >> > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list