Matthew Barnett <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> added the comment: Your verbose examples put the pattern into raw triple-quoted strings, which is OK, but their first character is a backslash, which makes the next character (a newline) an escaped literal whitespace character. Escaped whitespace is significant in a verbose pattern.
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