On Aug 16, 1:46 pm, Alex Willmer <a...@moreati.org.uk> wrote: > "Note that the (?x) flag changes how the expression is parsed. It > should be used first in the expression string, or after one or more > whitespace characters. If there are non-whitespace characters before > the flag, the results are undefined. > "http://docs.python.org/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax
Hmm, I found a lot of instances that place (?iLmsux) after non- whitespace characters http://google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=file:\.py[w]%3F$+[^[:space:]%22']%2B\(\%3F[iLmsux]%2B\) including two from the Python unit tests, re_test.py lines 109-110. Perhaps the documentation is overly cautious.. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
