Mike Meyer wrote: > ^ must match the beginning of the string (BTW, you can get the same > behavior by leaving off the ^ and using search instead of match).
that's backwards, isn't it? using ^ with match is usually pointless (since match only looks at the first position anyway), and using ^ with search is also usually pointless... (the only time you really need ^ is in certain multiline searches; depending on what flags you use, ^ can match not only at the beginning of a string, but also after each newline character in the target string) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
