Why re.match()?

[Paul Rudin]

Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.42.desthuilliers at websiteburo.invalid> writes:

> kj a écrit :
>> In <4a4e2227$0$7801$426a74cc at news.free.fr> Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.42.desthuilliers at websiteburo.invalid> writes:
>>
>>> kj a écrit :
>>> (snipo
>>>> To have a special-case
>>>> re.match() method in addition to a general re.search() method is
>>>> antithetical to language minimalism,
>>
>>> FWIW, Python has no pretention to minimalism.
>>
>> Assuming that you mean by this that Python's authors have no such
>> pretensions:
>>
>> "There is real value in having a small language."
>>
>> 			Guido van Rossum, 2007.07.03
>> 			http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-July/008663.html
>
> There are some differences between "small" and "minimal"...
>

There's also a difference between the language and its standard
library.