Adds an optional flags argument to re.split, re.sub and re.subn to be
consistent with the other re module functions.
diff --git a/Lib/re.py b/Lib/re.py
index 2cf7132..955b6b5 100644
--- a/Lib/re.py
+++ b/Lib/re.py
@@ -141,16 +141,16 @@
a match object, or None if no match was found."""
return _compile(pattern, flags).search(string)
-def sub(pattern, repl, string, count=0):
+def sub(pattern, repl, string, count=0, flags=0):
"""Return the string obtained by replacing the leftmost
non-overlapping occurrences of the pattern in string by the
replacement repl. repl can be either a string or a callable;
if a string, backslash escapes in it are processed. If it is
a callable, it's passed the match object and must return
a replacement string to be used."""
- return _compile(pattern, 0).sub(repl, string, count)
+ return _compile(pattern, flags).sub(repl, string, count)
-def subn(pattern, repl, string, count=0):
+def subn(pattern, repl, string, count=0, flags=0):
"""Return a 2-tuple containing (new_string, number).
new_string is the string obtained by replacing the leftmost
non-overlapping occurrences of the pattern in the source
@@ -159,12 +159,12 @@
callable; if a string, backslash escapes in it are processed.
If it is a callable, it's passed the match object and must
return a replacement string to be used."""
- return _compile(pattern, 0).subn(repl, string, count)
+ return _compile(pattern, flags).subn(repl, string, count)
-def split(pattern, string, maxsplit=0):
+def split(pattern, string, maxsplit=0, flags=0):
"""Split the source string by the occurrences of the pattern,
returning a list containing the resulting substrings."""
- return _compile(pattern, 0).split(string, maxsplit)
+ return _compile(pattern, flags).split(string, maxsplit)
def findall(pattern, string, flags=0):
"""Return a list of all non-overlapping matches in the string.