Josh Close wrote: > This is not returning a match > > re.compile( r'b' ).search( 'back', re.I ) > > Anyone know why this is?
Yes:
>>> import re
>>> re.compile(r'b').search('back', re.I)
>>> re.compile(r'b').search('back')
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x00AF3D78>
>>> re.compile(r'b', re.I).search('back')
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x00AF3CD0>
>>> re.compile(r'b', re.I).search('KCAB')
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x00AF3DB0>
:-)
-Peter
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