Jeff Schwab wrote: > 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?
I beg your pardon -- I should have qualified that: """ So please don't tell newbies to search for r'^something' when match of r'something' does the job. """ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
