[Python-Dev] why we have both re.match and re.string? (original) (raw)
Luca Sangiacomo succer110 at tiscali.it
Wed Feb 10 16:59:18 EST 2016
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Hi, I hope the question is not too silly, but why I would like to understand the advantages of having both re.match() and re.search(). Wouldn't be more clear to have just one function with one additional parameters like this:
re.search(regexp, text, from_beginning=True|False) ?
In this way we prevent, as written in the documentation, people writing ".*" in front of the regexp used with re.match()
Thanks.
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