On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:17:11 -0700, Ian Kelly wrote: > 2) Permitting flags in the regular expression allows different > combinations of flags to be in effect for different parts of complex > regular expressions. You can't do that just by passing in the flags as > an argument.
I don't believe Python's regex engine supports scoped flags, I think all flags are global to the entire regex. MRAB's regex engine does support scoped flags. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
