On 12/4/2017 11:14 AM, Ned Batchelder wrote:
On 12/4/17 9:13 AM, Rick Johnson wrote:
Perhaps it's not politically correct for me to say this, but
i've never been one who cared much about political
correctness, so i'm just going to say it...
Cecil, feel free to ignore the rest of Rick's message. His messages are
famous for their outrageous and/or abrasive tone, something he seems to
revel in. Luckily, it's not typical of the Python community.
Or take Rick's 'rest' as a suggestion to reread Library Reference
chapters 2, 3, 4 and in particular 4.7.
As for your idea of an RE, '^' matches the beginning of a line, and '$'
the end, though using .startswith, and .endswith, are easier if no other
RE syntax is needed for matching.
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