John Machin wrote: > Search for r'^something' can never be better/faster than match for > r'something', and with a dopey implementation of search [which Python's > re is NOT] it could be much worse. So please don't tell newbies to > search for r'^something'.
How else would you match the beginning of a line in a multi-line string? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list