Compilation flags

When compiling a pattern string into a pattern object, it's possible to modify the standard behavior of the patterns. In order to do that, we have to use the compilation flags. These can be combined using the bitwise OR "|".

Flag	Python	Description
re.IGNORECASE or re.I	2.x 3.x	The pattern will match lower case and upper case.
re.MULTILINE or re.M	2.x 3.x	This flag changes the behavior of two metacharacters: ^: Which now matches at the beginning of the string and at the beginning of each new line. $: In this case, it matches at the end of the string and the end of each line. Concretely, it matches right before the newline character.
re.DOTALL or re.S	2.x 3.x	The metacharacter "." will match any character even the newline.
re.LOCALE or re.L	2.x 3.x	This flag makes \w, \W, \b, \B, \s, and \S dependent on the current locale. "re.LOCALE just passes the character to the underlying C library. It really only works on bytestrings which have 1 byte per character. UTF...