nyenyec wrote:
> I feel like a complete idiot but I can't figure out why re.sub won't
> match multiline strings:
>
> This works:
> >>> re.search("^foo", "\nfoo", re.MULTILINE)
> <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x6c448>
>
> This doesn't. No replacement:
> >>> re.sub("^foo", "bar", "\nfoo", re.MULTILINE)
> '\nfoo'
>
> Why?
>
> Thanks,
> nyenyec
Check the arguments to re.sub.
>>> re.sub('(?m)^foo', 'bar', '\nfoo', count=0)
'\nbar'
- Paddy.
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