Regular expression to match a #

[Aahz]

In article <42fb45d7$1 at news.eftel.com>,
John Machin  <sjmachin at lexicon.net> wrote:
>
>Search for r'^something' can never be better/faster than match for 
>r'something', and with a dopey implementation of search [which Python's 
>re is NOT] it could be much worse. So please don't tell newbies to 
>search for r'^something'.

You're somehow getting mixed up in thinking that "^" is some kind of
"not" operator -- it's the start of line anchor in this context.
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