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Carey Evans careye at spamcop.net
Mon Jan 7 02:37:48 EST 2002

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Christophe Delord <christophe.delord at free.fr> writes:

> In regular expressions, the dot (.) doesn't match newlines.

It does if you pass the re.S flag, e.g.

    re.search('<tag>(.*)</tag>', data, re.S)

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