Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
Please keep them. They correspond to the (?x) and (?s) syntax that is
supported inside the regex.
Perl compatibility is a feature, not a bug for the re module.
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nosy: +gvanrossum
resolution: -> wont fix
status: open -> closed
New submission from Mark Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
The re module has the following flags (amongst others):
re.X == re.VERBOSE
re.S == re.DOTALL
The short forms of both these flags are clearly taken from Perl, but
they don't seem necessary for Python and are confusing since all the
other
