regex re.search and re.match

[Xah Lee]

in the regex module re:

Note: Match() is not exactly equivalent to Search() with "^". For
example:

 re.search(r'^B', 'A\nB',re.M) # succeeds
 re.match(r'B', 'A\nB',re.M)   # fails

if without the re.M, would re.search and re.match be equivalent?

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i wish to spruce up the rewritten re-module doc
 http://xahlee.org/perl-python/python_re-write/lib/module-re.html
with people's help.

if at the end it is good, i hope it can find its way into the official
doc.

 Xah
 xah at xahlee.org
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