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@@ -811,8 +811,8 @@ attributes:
.. method:: regex.search(string[, pos[, endpos]])
- Scan through *string* looking for a location where this regular expression
- produces a match, and return a corresponding :ref:`match object
+ Scan through *string* looking for the first location where this regular
+ expression produces a match, and return a corresponding :ref:`match object
<match-objects>`. Return ``None`` if no position in the string matches the
pattern; note that this is different from finding a zero-length match at some
point in the string.