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The Dark · Nov 20th, 2007, 6:41 PM

Try something like:
r"^\W*def .*\(.*\):.*\n(\W+).*(\n\1.*)*"
Notes:

I used \r so the backslashes don't mean escape. I don't
Changed the + to a * after the first \W so you can have "def" starting at the start of the line
Changed the ( to \( so that it actually matched the bracket in the source rather than being a collecting group
I used a collecting group (\W+) to collect the first lot of leading spaces
\1 matches the white space collected in the first group above

Hope this helps - It seemed to work for me, but I didn't try it out extensively.

Nov 20th, 2007, 6:41 PM	#2
The Dark Expert Programmer Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 825 Rep Power: 4	Re: Regex help Try something like: r"^\Wdef .\(.\):.\n(\W+).(\n\1.)" Notes: I used \r so the backslashes don't mean escape. I don't Changed the + to a after the first \W so you can have "def" starting at the start of the line Changed the ( to \( so that it actually matched the bracket in the source rather than being a collecting group I used a collecting group (\W+) to collect the first lot of leading spaces \1 matches the white space collected in the first group above Hope this helps - It seemed to work for me, but I didn't try it out extensively.