Steve Holden wrote: [...] >> Can someone explain why these two commands are giving different >> results? I thought I should have the same number of matches (or maybe >> different by 1, but not 6000!) >> > re.MULTLINE is apprently 1, and you are providing it as the "maxsplit" > argument. Check the API in the documentation. > Sorry, I presume re.MULTILINE must actually be zero for the result of re,split() to be of length 1 ...
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