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Author	pitrou
Recipients	gvanrossum, mrabarnett, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka, tim.peters
Date	2012-10-13.17:45:43
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
In-reply-to	<[email protected]>

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> Tim, my point is that if the MULTILINE flag happens to be turned on, > '$' won't just match at the end of the string (or slice), it'll also > match at a newline, so wrapping the pattern in (?:...)$ in that case > could give the wrong answer, but wrapping it in (?:...)\Z would give > the right answer. This means Tim and Guido are right that a dedicated fullmatch() method is desireable.

> Tim, my point is that if the MULTILINE flag happens to be turned on,
> '$' won't just match at the end of the string (or slice), it'll also
> match at a newline, so wrapping the pattern in (?:...)$ in that case
> could give the wrong answer, but wrapping it in (?:...)\Z would give
> the right answer.

This means Tim and Guido are right that a dedicated fullmatch() method
is desireable.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2012-10-13 17:45:43	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, gvanrossum, tim.peters, mrabarnett, serhiy.storchaka
2012-10-13 17:45:43	pitrou	link	issue16203 messages
2012-10-13 17:45:43	pitrou	create