Different number of matches from re.findall and re.split

[Jeremy]

On Jan 11, 9:28 am, Duncan Booth <duncan.bo... at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> MRAB <pyt... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> >> Yep.  Thanks for pointing that out.  I guess I just assumed that
> >> re.split was similar to re.search/match/findall in what it accepted as
> >> function parameters.  I guess I'll have to use a \n instead of a ^ for
> >> split.
>
> > You could use the .split method of a pattern object instead:
>
> >      tables = re.compile('^ 1', re.MULTILINE).split(line)
>
> or you might include the flag in the regular expression literal: '(?m)^ 1'

Another great solution.  This is what I will do.

Thanks,
Jeremy