From 94a105705f3c1a4eef912fbc11980cc59969a335 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:31:32 +0100 Subject: Closes #14250: regex.flags has not only explicit flags but also those from the pattern --- Doc/library/re.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst index cd0d204..d64604f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/re.rst +++ b/Doc/library/re.rst @@ -766,8 +766,8 @@ Regular Expression Objects .. attribute:: RegexObject.flags - The flags argument used when the RE object was compiled, or ``0`` if no flags - were provided. + The regex matching flags. This is a combination of the flags given to + :func:`.compile` and any ``(?...)`` inline flags in the pattern. .. attribute:: RegexObject.groups -- cgit v0.12