Chris wrote: > >>> re.split('x', '1x2X3', re.I) > ['1', '2X3']
> I expected ['1', '2', '3'] but in this case re.I bahaves exactly as not > present at all... > Is that an expected behaviour or a fault? This is expected: >>> help(re.split) Help on function split in module sre: split(pattern, string, maxsplit=0) Split the source string by the occurrences of the pattern, returning a list containing the resulting substrings. You are setting maxsplit to >>> re.I 2 Use re.compile() to get the desired behaviour: >>> re.compile("x", re.I).split("1x2X3") ['1', '2', '3'] Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list