Why doesn't this RE match?

[Vlastimil Brom]

2009/2/7 Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality <ihatespam at hotmail.com>:
>    I'm confused by this behaviour:
>
>
> import re
>
> regex = re.compile('foo')
> match = regex.match('whatfooever')
>
>
>    In my experience with regular expressions, regex should have found a
> match.  However, in this case regex.match() returns None.  Why is that?
> What am I missing?
>    Thank you...
>
>
>
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Try re.search() instead of match(), if nod only the beginning should
be checked for a match:
see
http://docs.python.org/library/re.html#matching-vs-searching

vbr