[ python-Bugs-1713999 ] Multiple re.compile flags cause error

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Bugs item #1713999, was opened at 2007-05-07 02:05
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Category: Regular Expressions
Group: Python 2.5
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Saul Spatz (saulspatz)
Assigned to: Gustavo Niemeyer (niemeyer)
Summary: Multiple re.compile flags cause error

Initial Comment:
The documentation for re.compile() shows that multiple flags are allowed, but 

re.compile(r'.*', re.VERBOSE, re.DOTALL)

results in an error message that only two arguments are allowed and three were given.

I'm using python 2.5 with Windows XP Home edition.

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>Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl)
Date: 2007-05-07 08:35

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Closing as invalid.

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Comment By: Gabriel Genellina (gagenellina)
Date: 2007-05-07 05:10

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Multiple flags must be ORed together: re.compile(r'.*', re.VERBOSE |
re.DOTALL)
>From the re module documentation at
http://docs.python.org/lib/node46.html: "Values can be any of the following
variables, combined using bitwise OR (the | operator)." 



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