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Subject: Re: What does (A ``quote'' is the character used to open the string, i.e. either ' or ".) mean?
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On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 9:23 AM, fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is '\A' the same with '^'?
> Is '\Z' the same with '$'?

The meanings of these are explained at:
https://docs.python.org/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax

Outside of multiline mode, they're equivalent. In multiline mode, ^
and $ will also match at the beginning and end of individual lines,
while \A and \Z still only match the beginning and end of the input
string.