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Peter Bengtsson July 11, 2011

Thanks! Well spotted!

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Alex July 11, 2011

Your comment-removing regex is a bit too greedy: it will eat anything between two comments: In [10]: re.sub('', '', 'lu', re.M) Out[10]: '' fix: use the non-greedy version of *: In [11]: re.sub('', '', 'lu', re.M) Out[11]: 'lu'