[issue16870] re fails to match ^ when start index is specified ?

[Ned Deily]

Ned Deily added the comment:

To expand a bit, rather than multiple calls to search, you can use the start and end methods of the match object to determine where the string (without the '^' anchor) matches.  For example:

r = re.compile("abc")
s = "0123abcxyz"
match = r.search(s)
if match:
    print(match.start(), match.end())

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