Regular expression gone mad

[Rene Pijlman]

fileexit:
>(Search finds nothing)
>
>>>> a=r"MemT"
>>>> pat = re.compile(a)
>>>> m=pat.search(ProcMem, re.DOTALL)
>>>> m

>From the docs:

"Compiled regular expression objects support the following methods and
attributes: 
match( string[, pos[, endpos]])"

Your re.DOTALL is seen as start position. That's why it's probably
matching 'MemFree' instead of 'MemTotal'.

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René Pijlman