The two regular expressions don't seem to work, when the whole path is multiline

r'^Transcript written on "?(.* )\.log"?\.$'
and
r'^Output written on "?(.*\. [^ ."]+)"? \([0-9]+ page'

Files were located in a path, where the the output for transcript and output would not fit into a single line. The script immediately broke, even though the regular expression should support multilines.