Python regex, matching pattern over multiple lines.. why isn't this working?

Question

I know that for parsing I should ideally remove all spaces and linebreaks but I was just doing this as a quick fix for something I was trying and I can\'t figure out why its

Answer 1

Try re.findall(r"####(.*?)\s(.*?)\s####", string, re.DOTALL) (works with re.compile too, of course).

This regexp will return tuples containing the number of the section and the section content.

For your example, this will return [('1', 'ttteest'), ('2', ' \n\nttest')].

(BTW: your example won't run, for multiline strings, use ''' or """)