The 4th argument of re.sub() is maximum number of substitutions, not flags. The string doesn't contain any newlines, only hex digits, so the re.DOTALL flag wouldn't have any effect. Let's remove it. --- test/sap_client.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/test/sap_client.py b/test/sap_client.py index 413424c05..ba4f6f544 100644 --- a/test/sap_client.py +++ b/test/sap_client.py @@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ class SAPMessage: def getContent(self): s = "%s(id=0x%.2X) " % (self.name, self.id) - if len( self.buf): s = s + "[%s]" % re.sub("(.{2})", "0x\\1 " , self.buf.tostring().encode("hex").upper(), re.DOTALL) + if len( self.buf): s = s + "[%s]" % re.sub("(.{2})", "0x\\1 " , self.buf.tostring().encode("hex").upper()) s = s + "\n\t" for p in self.params: s = s + "\t" + p.getContent() -- 2.11.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html