re.match is anchored at the beginning of the string. That has nothing to do with newlines, so it is not the same as using ^ in the pattern. As the re.match documentation says: If zero or more characters at the beginning of string match the regular expression pattern, return a corresponding MatchObject instance. Return None … Read more
Python 3.10 and above In Python 3.10, they introduced the pattern matching. Example from the Python documentation: def http_error(status): match status: case 400: return “Bad request” case 404: return “Not found” case 418: return “I’m a teapot” # If an exact match is not confirmed, this last case will be used if provided case _: … Read more
You misunderstand how boolean expressions work; they don’t work like an English sentence and guess that you are talking about the same comparison for all names here. You are looking for: if x == 1 or y == 1 or z == 1: x and y are otherwise evaluated on their own (False if 0, … Read more
Use regex.test() if all you want is a boolean result: console.log(/^([a-z0-9]{5,})$/.test(‘abc1’)); // false console.log(/^([a-z0-9]{5,})$/.test(‘abc12’)); // true console.log(/^([a-z0-9]{5,})$/.test(‘abc123′)); // true …and you could remove the () from your regexp since you’ve no need for a capture.