Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti at gmail.com> added the comment: Do you think I should mention that you can still use match and a regex that starts to ^ in combination with the start argument of r.match to match at the beginning of a line? I'm not sure that's necessary. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report at bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14155> _______________________________________