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eacousineau mannequin opened this issue Aug 23, 2012 · 2 comments
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re.sub() with re.MULTILINE not replacing all occurrences #59972

eacousineau mannequin opened this issue Aug 23, 2012 · 2 comments
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eacousineau mannequin commented Aug 23, 2012

BPO 15768
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eacousineau mannequin commented Aug 23, 2012

[Copying post I made here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12082886/bug-in-python-regex-re-sub-with-re-multiline]

I'm noticing some odd behavior in Python's Regex library, and I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong.

If I run a regex on it using re.sub(), with re.MULTILINE. It seems to only replace the first few occurrences. It replaces all occurrences if I turn off re.MULTILINE, use re.subn(..., count = 0, flags = re.MULTILINE), or compile the regex using re.compile(..., re.MULTILINE).

I am running Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 12.04.

I've posted a random example on:

http://pastebin.com/49SU8Mm2 - Output from terminal
http://codepad.org/2RO2iS4O - Script, confirming behavior (except for re.subn(), which is different on 2.5)

@eacousineau eacousineau mannequin added topic-regex type-bug An unexpected behavior, bug, or error labels Aug 23, 2012
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eacousineau mannequin commented Aug 23, 2012

Looks like I was just writing my code incorrectly - I should have been using re.sub(..., flags = re.MULTILINE).
That explains it.

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