Re: svn stat on new files

Kirby C. Bohling wrote:

>Karl,
>
> From my limited understanding of Python, the regular expression has to
>match the entire input, partial matches don't count.
>
No, that's wrong. The difference between re.match and re.search is that
re.match is implicitly anchored at the beginning of the search string,
while re.search is not.

> The method search
>(I believe it's search, I know there is another similar method) is grep
>like, and behaves the way you describe. Basically match prepends ^, and
>appends $ after the regex if I understand correctly.
>
No. Read the docs in the "re" module carefully. They're a bit confucing,
I admit, but the examples help you understand what's going on.

The funny thing is that if you use re.match(str, N), where N>0, an
expression starting with "^" will never match -- because "^" matches the
beginning of a string, and you're telling re.match to start beyond that. :-)

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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