[issue29959] re.match failed to match left square brackets as the first char

bo qu added the comment: hi Serhiy Storchaka thank you for your explanation, it helps a lot 2017-04-01 15:44 GMT+08:00 Serhiy Storchaka : > > Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: > > re.match() checks if the beginning of the string matches the regular > expression

[issue29959] re.match failed to match left square brackets as the first char

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: re.match() checks if the beginning of the string matches the regular expression pattern. Use re.search() if you want to find the match not at the beginning of the string. https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.match

[issue29959] re.match failed to match left square brackets as the first char

New submission from bo qu: if "[" is the first char in a string, then re.match can't match any pattern from the string, but re.findall works fine details as follows: [da@namenode log]$ python3 Python 3.4.3 (default, Jun 14 2015, 14:23:40) [GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-11)] on linux Type