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prefixmatch

re

function · Added in 3.15 (source)
  • prefixmatch(pattern, string, flags=0)
Try to apply the pattern at the start of the string, returning
a Match object, or None if no match was found.
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1 Example
>>> re.prefixmatch("c", "abcdef")  # No match
>>> re.search("^c", "abcdef")      # No match
>>> re.search("^a", "abcdef")      # Match
<re.Match object; span=(0, 1), match='a'>
from the Python docs
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