Re: startswith() and endswith() for re's would be more intuitive

From: Bruno Desthuilliers <onurb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:29:42 +0200

metaperl wrote:

I just finished answering a question in #python because someone tried
to match using ... well.. match()
but did not realize that match() is actually startswith() for regexps.

Yet someone else that failed to read the Fine Manual(tm).

I suggest:
re.compile('blah').atstartof(string)
re.compile('blah').atendof(string)

What's wrong with:
re.search(r'^blah', somestring)
re.search(r'blah$', somestring)

--
bruno desthuilliers
python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'onurb@xxxxxxxxxxx'.split('@')])"
.

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