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Python Regex WTF?!

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Armitage

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I've used python Regex's before, but always was matching from the beginning of the line. Now I'm trying to find something in the middle of a line and have run into a serious WTF??

In the python interpretor...

>>> import re
>>> ptrn = re.compile("Quick")
>>> x = "The Quick Brown Fox"
>>> ptrn.match(x)

No Match???

If I add a '.*' to the beginning of the pattern: ptrn = re.compile(".*Quick")
I get the match - but I don't want all that crap before it if I use findall or split.
What gives here?
 
More WTF:
If you don't use a compiled regex pattern, it works as expected. For example, the following works:

>>> re.search("Quick", "The Quick Brown Fox")
 
grrr ... match() only looks at the beginning of the string, search() does the whole thing.
It sucks being in a hurry. I'm an idiot :|
 
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