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Author Stephen.Evans
Recipients Stephen.Evans, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett
Date 2015-04-28.19:25:27
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A simple multiline regex fails when just the re.MULTILINE argument is used, but works when equivalent alternative methods are used. This was tested on Python2.7.8 on FreeBSD and Win32 Python2.7.9

data = re.sub(r'#.*', '', text, re.MULTILINE) # fails

data = re.sub(r'(?m)#.*', '', text) # Ok
data = re.sub(r'#.*', '', text, re.MULTILINE|re.DEBUG) # Ok

All the expressions work correctly with Win64 Python3.4.3
The attached file has the code and with a sample of text that fails.
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