Why is the analysis of the text by regular expression interrupted at the end of the line?

[guilherme]

I have this code:

import re
import urllib.request
def main():

pattern = re.compile(r"(?P<Block><div id="entryContent">.*)")

data = urllib.request.urlopen("http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/"

"definition/english/hello").read().decode()

result = pattern.search(data)

print(result.group("Block"))
main()

Result:

<div id="entryContent"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="entry" sk="hello11" id="hello_1"><ol class="h-g" id="hello_1__1"><div class="top-container"><div class="top-g" id="hello_1__2">

In my understanding, I was supposed to get the text from the RP to the end. Specially put ".*." But somehow, the analysis of the text is interrupted almost immediately and I only get a small part. Why would it be there?

[magpie]

Because the metashimwall. . default doesn't match \n♪
Use regular flag expression DOTALL♪

https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html#module-contents

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For PCRE ' s regular expressions, this flag is recorded as follows:

/your_regex/s