Nov 17, 2010 · re.escape(string) Return string with all non-alphanumerics backslashed; this is useful if you want to match an arbitrary literal string that may have regular expression …

May 21, 2012 · You can't selectively escape %, as % always has a special meaning depending on the following character. In the documentation of Python, at the bottem of the second table in …

Doing fr'{my_string}' will not change the string contents.It is equivalent to f'{my_string}' (because the r only applies at the time the string literal is interpreted, and none of {, m, y, _, s, t, r, i, n, g, …

@wjandrea your link really doesn't pertain to the OPs question. The OP wants to keep curly-braces while you are removing them in your linked answer via .format() and your dictionary …

Apr 27, 2012 · Regular string literals observe backslash escaping, so to actually put a backslash in the string, you need to escape it too. Raw string literals treat backslashes like any other …

If you use a raw string then you still have to work around a terminal "\" and with any string solution you'll have to worry about the closing ", ', ''' or """ if it is included in your data. That is, there's …

That string literal has a tab, a bell, and a newline in it. If you want their to be slashes in the string, you must escape them '\\' or use a raw string r'f:\tab ...'. But I suspect that isn't the problem …

Oct 26, 2010 · This doesn't work as written (the forward slashes make the replace do nothing), uses wildly outdated APIs (the string module functions of this sort are deprecated as of Python …

You can't just drop the string straight into your regex, because it might contain special characters. For instance, if the input string is "foo.bar", the regex will respond that "foozbar" is a match, …

Mar 19, 2013 · Don't use input(); use raw_input() instead when accepting string input. input() (on Python 2) tries to interpret the input string as Python, raw_input() does not try to interpret the …