[Python] Using re.VERBOSE on a regular expression [duplicate]

How would I go about taking the following regular expression:

re.compile(r'(\'?(("(\"|[^"])*")|^#.*\n|;.*\n|\(|\)|-?[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?|[a-zA-Z-#][a-zA-Z0-9.+-/\!]*))|\'.*')


and writing it across multiple lines?

For whatever reason my attempts at using re.VERBOSE seem to change the value of the expression.

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