Re: quoting strings
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Re: quoting strings

From: Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@pythonware.com>
Date: Tue Jan 31 2006 - 14:49:31 CET



Michal Duda wrote:



> is any equivalent to perl "quotemeta" function in python?



s = re.escape(s)



> I know that I can use this on string: r'\\test'


> but I need to do this on the variable



your example is a string literal, which isn't really the same thing as


a RE pattern in Python.



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Received on Tue Feb  7 20:21:11 2006