Python regex string matching?

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re.match implicitly adds ^ to the start of your regex. In other words, it only matches at the start of the string.

re.search will retry at all positions.

Generally speaking, I recommend using re.search and adding ^ explicitly when you want it.

http://docs.python.org/library/re.html

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