On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Prasad, Ramit <ramit.pra...@jpmorgan.com> wrote: > I guess you can consider re.match's pattern to be > prefixed with '^'.
You can in this case, but they're not equivalent in multi-line mode: >>> re.match('^two', 'one\ntwo', re.M) >>> re.search('^two', 'one\ntwo', re.M) <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x0475BFA8> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list