re.match and non-alphanumeric characters

[Diez B. Roggisch]

John Machin schrieb:
> On Nov 17, 4:44 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de... at nospam.web.de> wrote:
> 
>>  Match matches the whole string.
> 
> *ONLY* if the pattern ends with "$" or r"\Z"


You think so?

import re

rex = re.compile("abc.*def")

if rex.match("abc0123455678def"):
     print "matched"



Diez