Regex: don't match string ending with newline (\n) with end-of-line anchor ($)

Question

I can\'t figure out how to match a string but not if it has a trailing newline character (\\n), which seems automatically stripped:

import re

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Answer 1

You more likely don't need $ but rather \Z:

>>> print(re.match(r'^foobar\Z', 'foobar\n'))
None

• \Z matches only at the end of the string.