re and escape character

[Sinan Nalkaya]

Thomas Guettler wrote:

>Am Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:36:38 +0300 schrieb Sinan Nalkaya:
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>>i re-format incoming messages like this,
>>command = re.findall("^\002(.{2})\|.*\003$", response)[0]
>>it works well but when response comes with escape characters , my 
>>command variable crashes,
>>i cannot parse if response variable is like ,
>>response = '\002AB|TIasdasdasd
>>asdasdasd
>>xzczxc
>>qwewer
>>werwer|\003'
>>
>>ps:there must be \002 at the start and \003 at the end.
>>thanks.
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>Hi,
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>I don't know what you mean with "escape characters".
>The dot does not match a newline. You  have to use the
>re.DOTALL option if you want this.
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> HTH,
>   Thomas
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thats exactly what i want, how can i use DOTALL, by doing re.compile ?
thanks