Bug in Python Regex? (re.sub with re.MULTILINE)

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Use

re.sub(pattern, replace, text, flags=re.MULTILINE)

instead of

re.sub(pattern, replace, text, re.MULTILINE)

which is equivalent to

re.sub(pattern, replace, text, count=re.MULTILINE)

which is a bug in your code.

See re.sub()

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