[Python] How can I match the start and end in Python's regex?

I have a string and I want to match something at the start and end with a single search pattern. How can this be done?

Let's say we have a string like:

string = "ftp://www.somewhere.com/over/the/rainbow/image.jpg"


I want to do something like this:

re.search("^ftp:// & .jpg$" ,string)


Obviously, it's incorrect, but I hope it gets my point across. Is this possible?

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