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Sometimes I wish regexes were full matches by default and required prefixing and postfixing with `.*` to get the current behaviour


Java's Pattern.match() method works that way. Python has two separate methods: re.match auto-anchors, re.search does not.


a match isn't boolean, it's substring. the original (and more common) use-cases would become excessively verbose




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