re.sub replacement text \-escapes woe

[David M. Wilson]

Alexander Schmolck wrote:
> Sorry if I missed something obvious, but how do you do this more
> intelligently?
> 
> def escape(s):
>     return re.sub(r'([${}\\])', r'\ \1', s).replace('\\ ', '\\')
> 

re.escape? :)


David