split on blank lines

Hans Nowak hans at zephyrfalcon.org
Mon Dec 1 12:40:08 EST 2003


Duncan Booth wrote:

> Given that re.compile("^$", re.MULTILINE).findall("foo\n\nbar\n\nbaz") 
> returns ['', ''] I would agree this looks like a bug. You could submit a 
> bug report on Sourceforge.

I may be wrong, but I would think that the behavior is correct. "^$" matches an 
empty line.  This is exactly what findall returns... two empty lines.

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