[Tutor] What the difference between the two RE?

[Christian Witts]

On 2012/02/09 09:44 AM, daedae11 wrote:
> However, re.match("hello", "And they said hello" ) will also return 
> None. So "And they said hello" also won't be matched by the regex 
> pattern "hello".
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> daedae11
> *From:* Christian Witts <mailto:cwitts at compuscan.co.za>
> *Date:* 2012-02-09 15:16
> *To:* daedae11 <mailto:daedae11 at 126.com>
> *CC:* turor_python <mailto:tutor at python.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Tutor] What the difference between the two RE?
> On 2012/02/09 08:15 AM, daedae11 wrote:
>> import re
>> re.match("^hello", "hello")
>> re.match("hello", "hello")
>> Please give a string that matches RE "^hello" but does not match RE 
>> "hello", or matches RE "hello" but does not match RE "^hello".
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>> daedae11
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> The caret ^ means "At the beginning of the line" so 'And they said 
> hello' will not be matched by the regex pattern '^hello'.
>
> The docs are pretty good on the module
> http://docs.python.org/library/re.html
> http://docs.python.org/howto/regex.html
> -- 
>
> Christian Witts
> Python Developer
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>
> --
 From the docs http://docs.python.org/library/re.html#re.match
Note: If you want to locate a match anywhere in string, use search() 
instead.
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Christian Witts
Python Developer
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