Simple regex that has me banging my head against a wall

[Emile van Sebille]

In 2.0,

'$1$asdfjke$lkjasdkjfsdasdfj'.replace('$',r'\$')

but then I don't tend to use re's for this kind of thing.  Is there some
advantage I'm not seeing?

Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

"Timothy Grant" <tjg at exceptionalminds.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.985213768.20178.python-list at python.org...
> Hi again.
>
> I actually thought I had this regex thing down pretty well, but
> I'm getting beat up by what I thought should be a simple one.
>
> >>> x = '$1$asdfjke$lkjasdkjfsdasdfj'
> >>> re.sub(r'\$', r'\\\$', x)
> '\\\\$1\\\\$asdfjke\\\\$lkjasdkjfsdasdfj'
>
> All I want to do is substitute \$ for $.
>
> Thanks.
>
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>     tjg.
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