Multiple re.compile flags cause error

[saulspatz]

BPO	1713999
Nosy	@birkenfeld

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closed_at = <Date 2007-05-07.08:35:37.000>
created_at = <Date 2007-05-07.02:05:29.000>
labels = ['expert-regex', 'invalid']
title = 'Multiple re.compile flags cause error'
updated_at = <Date 2007-05-07.08:35:37.000>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/saulspatz'

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activity = <Date 2007-05-07.08:35:37.000>
actor = 'georg.brandl'
assignee = 'niemeyer'
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components = ['Regular Expressions']
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issue_num = 1713999
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priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'not a bug'
stage = None
status = 'closed'
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue1713999'
versions = ['Python 2.5']

[saulspatz]

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.

[ggenellina]

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)."

[birkenfeld]

Closing as invalid.