import re

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txt = """Hi

my

name

is

Sally"""

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#Search for a sequence that starts with "me", followed by one character, even a newline character, and continues with "is":

print(re.findall("me.is", txt, re.DOTALL))

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#This example would return no match without the re.DOTALL flag:

print(re.findall("me.is", txt))

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#Same result with the shorthand re.S flag:

print(re.findall("me.is", txt, re.S))

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