Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
The re.M flag is an attribute of the compiled pattern, and as such it
must be passed to compile(), not to findall().
These all work:
>>> re.compile(r"[a-z]+").findall("hello world")
['hello', 'world']
>>> re.compile(r"[a-z]+", re.M).findall("hello world")
['hello', 'world']
>>> re.compile(r"(?m)[a-z]+").findall("hello world")
['hello', 'world']
The second argument to the findall() method of compile objects is the
start position to match from (see
http://docs.python.org/lib/re-objects.html). This explains the behaviour
you are witnessing:
>>> re.M
8
>>> re.compile(r"[a-z]+").findall("hello world", 8)
['rld']
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nosy: +pitrou
resolution: -> invalid
status: open -> closed
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