sre_constants.error: bogus escape

[Bradley D. Larson]

What is the best method of changing a \ character to something else

I'm trying to use re....

        pat = re.compile('\\');  ts = pat.sub(':',ts)

which produces....

  File "C:\PYTHON21\Lib\sre.py", line 90, in compile
    return _compile(pattern, flags)
  File "C:\PYTHON21\Lib\sre.py", line 136, in _compile
    raise error, v # invalid expression
sre_constants.error: bogus escape


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