New submission from Eric Cousineau: [Copying post I made here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12082886/bug-in-python-regex-re-sub-with-re-multiline]
I'm noticing some odd behavior in Python's Regex library, and I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong. If I run a regex on it using re.sub(), with re.MULTILINE. It seems to only replace the first few occurrences. It replaces all occurrences if I turn off re.MULTILINE, use re.subn(..., count = 0, flags = re.MULTILINE), or compile the regex using re.compile(..., re.MULTILINE). I am running Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 12.04. I've posted a random example on: http://pastebin.com/49SU8Mm2 - Output from terminal http://codepad.org/2RO2iS4O - Script, confirming behavior (except for re.subn(), which is different on 2.5) ---------- components: Regular Expressions messages: 168909 nosy: eacousineau, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: re.sub() with re.MULTILINE not replacing all occurrences type: behavior versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15768> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
