What is 're.M'?

2014-07-07 Thread rxjwg98
) and makes ^ match the start of any line (not just the start of the string). More specific, what does 're.M' means? I have tried several other modification to the searchObj line, without clue yet. Could you explain re.M and the following two searchObj mechanisms? Thanks, import re line = Cats

Re: What is 're.M'?

2014-07-07 Thread Skip Montanaro
Scroll down to the Module Contents section of this page: https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html It explains re.M and other constants. Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What is 're.M'?

2014-07-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
of a line (not just the end of the string) and makes ^ match the start of any line (not just the start of the string). More specific, what does 're.M' means? I have tried several other modification to the searchObj line, without clue yet. Could you explain re.M and the following two searchObj

Re: What is 're.M'?

2014-07-07 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 07:08:53 -0700, rxjwg98 wrote: More specific, what does 're.M' means? Feel free to look at it interactively. re.M is a flag to control the meaning of the regular expression. It is short for re.MULTILINE, just as re.I is short for re.IGNORECASE: py import re py re.M

Re: What is 're.M'?

2014-07-07 Thread rxjwg98
On Monday, July 7, 2014 10:46:19 AM UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 07:08:53 -0700, rxjwg98 wrote: More specific, what does 're.M' means? Feel free to look at it interactively. re.M is a flag to control the meaning of the regular expression. It is short

Re: What is 're.M'?

2014-07-07 Thread rxjwg98
On Monday, July 7, 2014 10:46:19 AM UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 07:08:53 -0700, rxjwg98 wrote: More specific, what does 're.M' means? Feel free to look at it interactively. re.M is a flag to control the meaning of the regular expression. It is short

Re: What is 're.M'?

2014-07-07 Thread rxjwg98
On Monday, July 7, 2014 10:46:19 AM UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 07:08:53 -0700, rxjwg98 wrote: More specific, what does 're.M' means? Feel free to look at it interactively. re.M is a flag to control the meaning of the regular expression. It is short

Re: What is 're.M'?

2014-07-07 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 07/07/2014 16:20, rxjw...@gmail.com wrote: For the second time, would you please use the mailing list https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list or read and action this https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython to prevent us seeing double line spacing and single line