backslash in regular expression problem

[Michael Hudson]

Keith Murphy <kpmurphy at my-deja.com> writes:

> what if instead of having '\\stuff' you have a str = '\\stuff'  ?
> 
> i know that you can print r'\\stuff' but you can't print rstr...
> 
> how do you use the raw with a variable?

You don't.  You do know about re.escape?  Asking that question
suggests you might not...

Cheers,
M.

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