this ought to fix #48. 🤞

Author: ikirudennis

textile/utils.py

@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ def list_type(list_string):
 def normalize_newlines(string):
     out = string.strip()
     out = re.sub(r'\r\n?', '\n', out)
-    out = re.sub(r'^[ \t]*\n', '\n', out, flags=re.M)
+    out = re.compile(r'^[ \t]*\n', flags=re.M).sub('\n', out)
     out = re.sub(r'"$', '" ', out)
     return out