On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:42:55 +0000, MRAB wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > [snip] >> An example from the standard library: the re module defines constants >> I, L, M, etc. representing flags that are passed to the re.compile. >> They are implemented as integers so they can easily be combined with &, >> but another implementation might use symbols. You will notice that >> they're not limited to the re.compile function itself. >> >> The caller may very well want to do something like this: >> >> # Get some flags for compile: >> flags = re.I & re.M > [snip] > > That should be: > > flags = re.I | re.M > > of course. :-)
Dammit! No wonder my regexes never work as I expect!!! Thanks for the correction. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
