Regex matching - why does this not match and return None?

Question

I don\'t understand why this simple regex match does not return a match object. It returns None what am I doing wrong?

I\'m a total newby(started yesterday) and want

Answer 1

Because you should be passing the re.I to compile(), not match().

>>> pattern = re.compile(r'^9', re.I)
>>> a=pattern.match(teststring)
>>> print a
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x1140168>