Comparing re.match and re.search

In [4]: timeit.timeit("re.search('^spam', 'spamming a useless string of random junk')",setup="import re")
Out[4]: 0.8193864339991705

In [5]: timeit.timeit("re.match('spam', 'spamming a useless string of random junk')",setup="import re")
Out[5]: 1.3379552369988232