Simon Brunning wrote:
> On 7/18/05, Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I am using regular expressions and I would like to use both
>> re.IGNORECASE and re.VERBOSE options. I want to do something like the
>> following (which doesn't work):
>>
>> matsearch = r'''^\ {0,4}([mM]\d+) '''
>> MatSearch = re.compile(matsearch, re.VERBOSE, re.IGNORECASE)
>
> MatSearch = re.compile(matsearch, re.IGNORECASE + re.VERBOSE)
While this works when you are only combining flags, the general way of handling
flags (= bit-fields) is with the three bit-wise operators '^', '&' and '|'.
Reinhold
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