On Jul 1, 10:56 am, kj <no.em...@please.post> wrote: > For a recovering Perl-head like me it is difficult to understand > why Python's re module offers both match and search. Why not just > use search with a beginning-of-string anchor? I find it particularly > puzzling because I have this (possibly mistaken) idea that the > Python design philosophy tends towards minimalism, a sort of Occam's > razor, when it comes to language entities; i.e. having re.match > along with re.search seems to me like an "unnecessary multiplication > of entities". What am I missing?
It always seemed redundant to me also (notwithstanding Duncan Booth's explanation of slight semantic differences). However, I find myself using re.match much more often than re.search, so perhaps in this case a "second obvious way" is justified. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
