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Author tim.peters
Recipients Simmo Saan, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, serhiy.storchaka, tim.peters
Date 2016-04-30.15:38:11
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Do note that `.match()` is constrained to match starting at the first byte.  `.search()` is not (it can start matching at any position), and your example works fine if `.search()` is used instead.

This is all expected, and intended, and documented.
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