Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:19:40 +0000, kj wrote: > >> I'm sure that it is possible to find cases in which the *current* >> implementation of re.search() would be inefficient, but that's because >> this implementation is perverse, which, I guess, is ultimately the point >> of my original post. Why privilege the special case of a >> start-of-string anchor? > > Because wanting to see if a string matches from the beginning is a very > important and common special case. >
I find the most oddest thing about re.match is that it have an implicit beginning anchor, but not implicit end anchor. I thought it was much more common to ensure that a string matches a certain pattern, than just matching the beginning. But everyone's mileages vary. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
