Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > Tim, my point is that if the MULTILINE flag happens to be turned on, > '$' won't just match at the end of the string (or slice), it'll also > match at a newline, so wrapping the pattern in (?:...)$ in that case > could give the wrong answer, but wrapping it in (?:...)\Z would give > the right answer.
This means Tim and Guido are right that a dedicated fullmatch() method is desireable. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16203> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
