Is it useful for re.M in this example?

[Terry Reedy]

On 11/12/2015 4:34 PM, fl wrote:

> I follow a web site on learning Python re. I have read the function
>   description of re.m, as below.

> 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:
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import re
>
> line = "Cats are smarter than dogs";
>
> matchObj = re.match( r'dogs', line, re.M|re.I)
> if matchObj:
>     print "match --> matchObj.group() : ", matchObj.group()
> else:
>     print "No match!!"
>
> The tutorial (http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_reg_expressions.htm)
> is for a beginner as I. Is there something I don't see in the example?

No. The use of re.M in the examples is doubly irrelevant since there is 
no \n in line and no $ in the pattern.  Re.I is also not relevant since 
there is no case-insensitive matchin.  It appears that the author 
routinely uses flags=re.M|re.I.  For a tutorial, I would have omitted 
either omitted them or explained them as routine boilerplate.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy