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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-01-21 17:29:23 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-01-21 17:29:23 (GMT) |
| commit | e42169124f25316195c9a31a88df5c0a82e2c2bb (patch) | |
| tree | d4f8f226be3b5f70561dbfe1ad90b9acf68f2b3c /Lib/re.py | |
| parent | 1ea8cb49ed728dadec11d0a554431c566fdc5a56 (diff) | |
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Clarify $ behavior in re docstring. #1631394.
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@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ concatenate ordinary characters, so last matches the string 'last'. The special characters are: "." Matches any character except a newline. "^" Matches the start of the string. - "$" Matches the end of the string. + "$" Matches the end of the string or just before the newline at + the end of the string. "*" Matches 0 or more (greedy) repetitions of the preceding RE. Greedy means that it will match as many repetitions as possible. "+" Matches 1 or more (greedy) repetitions of the preceding RE. @@ -83,8 +84,10 @@ This module exports the following functions: Some of the functions in this module takes flags as optional parameters: I IGNORECASE Perform case-insensitive matching. L LOCALE Make \w, \W, \b, \B, dependent on the current locale. - M MULTILINE "^" matches the beginning of lines as well as the string. - "$" matches the end of lines as well as the string. + M MULTILINE "^" matches the beginning of lines (after a newline) + as well as the string. + "$" matches the end of lines (before a newline) as well + as the end of the string. S DOTALL "." matches any character at all, including the newline. X VERBOSE Ignore whitespace and comments for nicer looking RE's. U UNICODE Make \w, \W, \b, \B, dependent on the Unicode locale. |