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Update regex HOWTO for re.prefixmatch
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Update fnmatch to prefixmatch
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Revise 'prefixmatch() versus search()'
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Co-authored-by: Shantanu <12621235+hauntsaninja@users.noreply.github.com>
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.. _match-versus-search:

prefixmatch() versus search()
prefixmatch() (aka match) versus search()
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:func:`~re.prefixmatch` was added in Python 3.15 as the :ref:`preferred name
<prefixmatch-vs-match>` for :func:`~re.match`. Before this, it was only known
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