What does (A ``quote'' is the character used to open the string, i.e. either ' or ".) mean?

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On Thursday, July 10, 2014 10:14:14 AM UTC-4, Chris "Kwpolska" Warrick wrote:
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> Please don't learn from this link.  It's from 2001.  You should learn
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> from modern documentation: https://docs.python.org/ (if not running
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> 3.4.x, change the version in the top)
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> You also should not read the language reference, it's meant for people
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> who really care about what's under the hood.  The official tutorial is
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> better for learning: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html
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Thank you for your advice. My OP was originated from a question from this link:
https://wiki.python.org/moin/RegularExpression

It has several useful examples. Several of them are not clear to me. Please 
explain it to me. 

Is '\A' the same with '^'?
Is '\Z' the same with '$'?

Thanks,