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?
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