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On Thu, May 5, 2016, at 14:27, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
> Random832's pattern is fine. You need to use re.fullmatch with it.

Heh, in my previous post I said "and one could easily imagine an API
that implicitly anchors at the end". So easy to imagine it turns out
that someone already did, as it turns out. Batteries included indeed.