regexpr. and metachars

[Fredrik Lundh]

Asle wrote:
> I want to match strings containing regular expressions (regular expr.
> metachars) with regular expressions!! e.g. what regular expression would
> match "\W+"

re.escape("\W+")

> or  "\W+\w{1,2}" ???

re.escape("\W+\w{1,2}")

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