Why no match?

[Robin Becker]

I'm puzzled as to why the second of these pattern matches fails. They
only differ in that the second is supposed to match to the end of line.
Can any regexpert supply an answer?

>>> import re
>>> re.compile(r'^self\s*\.\s*test\s*=\s*\d\s*').match('self.test=11')
<SRE_Match object at 010711F8>
>>> re.compile(r'^self\s*\.\s*test\s*=\s*\d\s*$').match('self.test=11')
>>> 
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Robin Becker