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Author	mrabarnett
Recipients	gvanrossum, mrabarnett, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka, tim.peters
Date	2012-10-13.17:25:51
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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Tim, my point is that if the MULTILINE flag happens to be turned on, '$' won't just match at the end of the string (or slice), it'll also match at a newline, so wrapping the pattern in (?:...)$ in that case could give the wrong answer, but wrapping it in (?:...)\Z would give the right answer.

Tim, my point is that if the MULTILINE flag happens to be turned on, '$' won't just match at the end of the string (or slice), it'll also match at a newline, so wrapping the pattern in (?:...)$ in that case could give the wrong answer, but wrapping it in (?:...)\Z would give the right answer.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-10-13 17:25:51	mrabarnett	set	recipients: + mrabarnett, gvanrossum, tim.peters, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka
2012-10-13 17:25:51	mrabarnett	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
2012-10-13 17:25:51	mrabarnett	link	issue16203 messages
2012-10-13 17:25:51	mrabarnett	create