Question

Sample text: String -> content within the rev tag (via lxml).

I’m trying to remove the {{BLOCKS}} within the text.

I’ve used the following regex to remove simple, one line blocks:

p = re.compile('\{\{*.*\}\}')
nonBracketedString = p.sub('', bracketedString)

However this does not remove the first multi line bracketed section at the beginning of the content. How can one remove the multi-line, curly bracketed blocks?

---

EDIT:

Solution from answer:

p = re.compile('\{\{*?.*?\}\}', re.DOTALL)
nonBracketedString = p.sub('', bracketedString)

Answer 1

Set the dotall flag.

p = re.compile('\{\{*.*?\}\}', re.DOTALL)
nonBracketedString = p.sub('', bracketedString)

In the default mode, . matches any character except a newline. If the DOTALL flag has been specified, this matches any character including a newline.

http://docs.python.org/library/re.html

Also, you’ll need a non-greedy match between the brackets: .*?