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This unexpectedly matches: re.match('^bob$', 'bob\n') I didn't want the trailing newline to be included.

• wodenokoto 3y ago
  But that string does have a new line at the end.
  • iainmerrick 3y ago
    re.match('^bob$', 'bob') → yes re.match('^bob$', 'bobs') → no Most people would expect 'bob\n' not to match, because I used '$' and it has an extra character at the end, just like 'bobs'. In Python it does match because '\n' is a special case.
    • rerdavies 3y ago
      ... for some arbitrary definition of "most people".
      • iainmerrick 3y ago
        That’s true, probably fewer than ten million people in the world would have an opinion one way or the other. :)