escape
- escape(pattern)
Escape special characters in a string.
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Changed in 3.3, 3.7
- 3.3: The '_' character is no longer escaped.
- 3.7: Only characters that can have special meaning in a regular expression are escaped. As a result, '!', '"', '%', "'", ',', '/', ':', ';', '<', '=', '>', '@', and "`" are no longer escaped.
1 Example
>>> print(re.escape('https://www.python.org')) https://www\.python\.org >>> legal_chars = string.ascii_lowercase + string.digits + "!#$%&'*+-.^_`|~:" >>> print('[%s]+' % re.escape(legal_chars)) [abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789!\#\$%\&'\*\+\-\.\^_`\|\~:]+ >>> operators = ['+', '-', '*', '/', '**'] >>> print('|'.join(map(re.escape, sorted(operators, reverse=True)))) /|\-|\+|\*\*|\*
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