Steven Collins added the comment:
Fair enough, but in that case I still think the current behavior should be
documented. Attached is a possible patch. (This is my first interaction with
the Python issue tracker, by the way; apologies if I ought to have set some
field differently or left some
New submission from Steven Collins:
Given the way the documentation is written for re.VERBOSE - "Whitespace within
the pattern is ignored, except when in a character class or preceded by an
unescaped backslash" - I would expect all three of the findall() commands below
to return su
