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Author mrabarnett
Recipients bayat, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett
Date 2020-09-11.18:10:33
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The arguments are: re.sub(pattern, repl, string, count=0, flags=0).

Therefore:

    re.sub("pattern","replace", txt, re.IGNORECASE | re.DOTALL)

is passing re.IGNORECASE | re.DOTALL as the count, not the flags.

It's in the documentation and the interactive help.
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