Steven Collins added the comment: Fair enough, but in that case I still think the current behavior should be documented. Attached is a possible patch. (This is my first interaction with the Python issue tracker, by the way; apologies if I ought to have set some field differently or left some other field alone.) ---------- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation keywords: +patch nosy: +docs@python title: re.VERBOSE doesn't ignore certain whitespace -> re.VERBOSE whitespace behavior not completely documented type: behavior -> enhancement versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 2.7, Python 3.2 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file26767/re_whitespace.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15606> _______________________________________