python regular expression across multiple lines

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To have . match any character, including a newline, compile your RE with re.DOTALL among the options (remember, if you have multiple options, use |, the bit-or operator, between them, in order to combine them).

In this case I’m not sure you actually do need this — why not something like

re.findall(r'(\d+)\s+\d+\s+(WS-\S+)')

assuming for example that the way you identify a “model” is that it starts with WS-? The fact that there will be newlines between one result of findall and the next one is not a problem here. Can you explain exactly how you identify a “model” and why “multiline” is an issue? Maybe you want the re.MULTILINE to make ^ match at each start-of-line, to grab your data with some reference to the start of the lines…?

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