Different number of matches from re.findall and re.split

[Steve Holden]

Steve Holden wrote:
[...]
>> Can someone explain why these two commands are giving different
>> results?  I thought I should have the same number of matches (or maybe
>> different by 1, but not 6000!)
>>
> re.MULTLINE is apprently 1, and you are providing it as the "maxsplit"
> argument. Check the API in the documentation.
> 
Sorry, I presume re.MULTILINE must actually be zero for the result of
re,split() to be of length 1 ...

regards
 Steve
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