I feel like a complete idiot but I can't figure out why re.sub won't match multiline strings:
This works:
>>> re.search("^foo", "\nfoo", re.MULTILINE)
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x6c448>
This doesn't. No replacement:
>>> re.sub("^foo", "bar", "\nfoo", re.MULTILINE)
'\nfoo'
Why?
Thanks,
nyenyec
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