regex search with a space as the fist character

[Daniel Santos]

Hello,

>>> print re.compile('u ').search(" u box2", 1)
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x7ff1d918>
>>> print re.compile(' u ').search(" u box2", 1)
None


Why ?
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