On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 10:00 PM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > On 2016-02-11 02:48, Larry Martell wrote: >> >> Given this string: >> >>>>> s = """|Type=Foo >> >> ... |Side=Left""" >>>>> >>>>> print s >> >> |Type=Foo >> |Side=Left >> >> I can match with this: >> >>>>> m = re.search(r'^\|Type=(.*)$\n^\|Side=(.*)$',s,re.MULTILINE) >>>>> print m.group(0) >> >> |Type=Foo >> |Side=Left >>>>> >>>>> print m.group(1) >> >> Foo >>>>> >>>>> print m.group(2) >> >> Left >> >> But when I try and sub it doesn't work: >> >>>>> rn = re.sub(r'^\|Type=(.*)$^\|Side=(.*)$', r'|Side Type=\2 >>>>> \1',s,re.MULTILINE) >>>>> print rn >> >> |Type=Foo >> |Side=Left >> >> What very stupid thing am I doing wrong? >> > The 4th argument of re.sub is the count.
Thanks. Turned out that this site is running 2.6 and that doesn't support the flags arg to sub. So I had to change it to: re.sub(r'\|Type=(.*)\n\|Side=(.*)', r'\|Side Type=\2 \1',s) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
