Regular Expressions 101

_inherit = 'resthe literal text _inherit = 'res (case sensitive)

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

partner'the literal text partner' (case sensitive)

Group with flags gms(?s:.*?)

s modifier: single line. Allows a dot to match line terminators

.*?any character, repeated any number of times

unique_codethe literal text unique_code (case sensitive)

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

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Regular Expression

_inherit = 'res\.partner'(?s:.*?)unique_code.*

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_inherit = 'res.partner' 

parent_company = fields.Many2one('res.partner', 'Parent Company')   
unique_code = fields.Char(string='Unique client code', readonly="1",copy=False, index=True)

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