On Nov 17, 10:19 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Machin schrieb: > > > On Nov 17, 4:44 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Match matches the whole string. > > > *ONLY* if the pattern ends with "$" or r"\Z" > > You think so? > > import re > > rex = re.compile("abc.*def") > > if rex.match("abc0123455678def"): > print "matched" >
OK, I'll try again: The following 3-tuples represent (pattern, string, matched_portion_of_string): ('abc', 'abc', 'abc') ('abc', 'abcdef', 'abc') ('abc$', 'abc', 'abc') ('abc$', 'abcdef', '<no match>') Saying "Match matches the whole string" is incorrect; see the second case. If you want to ensure that the whole string matches the pattern, the pattern needs to be terminated by "$" or "\Z". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list