[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On May 29, 2:03 am, Zdenek Maxa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I would like to perform regular expression replace (e.g. removing >> everything from within tags in a XML file) with multiple-line pattern. >> How can I do this? >> >> where = open("filename").read() >> multilinePattern = "^<tag> .... <\/tag>$" >> re.search(multilinePattern, where, re.MULTILINE) >> >> Thanks greatly, >> Zdenek >> > > Why not use an xml package for working with xml files? I'm sure > they'll handle your multiline tags. > > http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm > http://codespeak.net/lxml/ > > ~Sean > >
Hi, that was merely an example of what I would like to achieve. However, in general, is there a way for handling multiline regular expressions in Python, using presumably only modules from distribution like re? Thanks, Zdenek -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list