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re.match() soft-deprecated in Python 3.15, use re.prefixmatch() instead for prefix matches
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Python 3.15 marks re.match() as a soft-deprecated alias and introduces the clearer re.prefixmatch() for half-anchored matches.
Existing code that calls re.match() will continue to run unchanged, but new code should adopt re.prefixmatch() to avoid the historic confusion of its start-of-string semantics. The change is documentation-only, so no runtime warnings appear, yet lint tools can be configured to ban the old name. Switching now improves code readability and aligns with Python’s “explicit is better than implicit” philosophy.
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re.match() only matches at the beginning of a string, which can be surprising to readers.
Python 3.15 adds re.prefixmatch() as an explicit alias for the same half-anchored behavior.
re.match() is soft-deprecated: it remains functional and documented, but new code should prefer re.prefixmatch(), re.search(), or re.fullmatch().
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