Is it useful for re.M in this example?

John Gordon gordon at panix.com
Thu Nov 12 17:00:32 EST 2015


In <fc8a4061-5156-41c8-bfd7-d9a8da462418 at googlegroups.com> fl <rxjwg98 at gmail.com> writes:

> re.M	Makes $ match the end of a line (not just the end of the string) and
>  makes ^ match the start of any line (not just the start of the string).

> But I don't see the reason to put re.M in the example project:

That's because your sample string does not contain newline characters.
If it did, you would see the effect of re.M.

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