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Expand Up @@ -1575,11 +1575,12 @@ Python offers different primitive operations based on regular expressions:

For example::

>>> re.match("c", "cdef") # match
<re.Match object; span=(0, 1), match='c'>
>>> re.search("c", "cdef") # Match
<re.Match object; span=(0, 1), match='c'>
>>> re.fullmatch("c", "cdef") # No Match
>>> re.match("c", "abcdef") # No match
>>> re.search("c", "abcdef") # Match
<re.Match object; span=(2, 3), match='c'>
>>> re.fullmatch("p.*n", "python")
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Sorry I missed this: Can you add the "# Match" comment to this line?

<re.Match object; span=(0, 6), match='python'>
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>>> re.fullmatch("r.*n", "python") # No match

Regular expressions beginning with ``'^'`` can be used with :func:`search` to
restrict the match at the beginning of the string::
Expand All @@ -1594,9 +1595,9 @@ Note however that in :const:`MULTILINE` mode :func:`match` only matches at the
beginning of the string, whereas using :func:`search` with a regular expression
beginning with ``'^'`` will match at the beginning of each line. ::

>>> re.match('X', 'A\nB\nX', re.MULTILINE) # No match
>>> re.fullmatch('X', "A\nB\nX", re.MULTILINE) # No Match
>>> re.search('^X', 'A\nB\nX', re.MULTILINE) # Match
>>> re.match("X", "A\nB\nX", re.MULTILINE) # No match
>>> re.fullmatch("X", "A\nB\nX", re.MULTILINE) # No Match
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And delete thisfullmatch line also. This section doesn't need to mention fullmatch.

>>> re.search("^X", "A\nB\nX", re.MULTILINE) # Match
<re.Match object; span=(4, 5), match='X'>


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