re/sre woes with Python 2.0

[Jonathan Epstein]

Hi,

Can someone please explain why the following line produces a
regular-expression compilation error with Python 2.0, but not with Python
1.5?  Is this fixed in any later versions, and/or can you describe how to
adjust the RE to make Python 2.0 happy?

regexp2 = re.compile
(r"(?s)STATE\s*\"([^\"]*)\"\s*(\w*)\s*(\w*)?\s*{(.*?)\n[
\t]*}(?=\s*(?:$|STATE))")





TIA,



- Jonathan