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From: John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: Is it useful for re.M in this example?
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 22:00:32 +0000 (UTC)
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In <fc8a4061-5156-41c8-bfd7-d9a8da462418@googlegroups.com> fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> writes:

> re.M	Makes $ match the end of a line (not just the end of the string) and
>  makes ^ match the start of any line (not just the start of the string).

> But I don't see the reason to put re.M in the example project:

That's because your sample string does not contain newline characters.
If it did, you would see the effect of re.M.

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