How to set ignorecase flag for part of regular expression in Python?

Question

Is it possible to implement in Python something like this simple one:

#!/usr/bin/perl
my $a = \'Use HELLO1 code\';
if($a =~ /(?i:use)\\s+([A-Z0-9]+)\\s+(?i:c         


        

Answer 1

According to the docs, this is not possible. The (?x) syntax only allows you to modify a flag for the whole expression. Therefore, you must split this into three regexp and apply them one after the other or do the "ignore case" manually: /[uU][sS][eE]...