[Tutor] string matching

[Tesla Coil]

On 15 Mar 2001, Cruiser wrote:
> I got a problem using Regex module, i.e. object.match
> (string) method, in which object is a compiled regular
>  expression pattern, string is a string with multiple
> lines (up to 6 pages!). This method can not find 
> any pattern except that on the first line, while
> object.search(string) is working just fine! 

Sounds like the difference between match and search.

See:
http://py-howto.sourceforge.net/regex/node22.html