Hi, Reading the docs about regular expressions, I am under the impression that calling re.match(pattern, string) is exactly the same as re.search(r'\A'+pattern, string)
Same for fullmatch, that amounts to re.search(r'\A'+pattern+r'\Z', string) The docs devote a chapter to "6.2.5.3. search() vs. match()", but they only discuss how match() is different from search() with '^', completely eluding the case of search() with r'\A'. At first I thought those functions could have been introduced at a time when r'\A' and r'\Z' did not exist, but then I noticed that re.fullmatch is a recent addition (python 3.4) Surely the python devs are not cluttering the interface of the re module with useless functions for no reason, so what am I missing? Maybe re.match has an implementation that makes it more efficient? But then why would I ever use r'\A', since that anchor makes a pattern match in only a single position, and is therefore useless in functions like re.findall, re.finditer or re.split? Thanks, Thierry -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list