"Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-py at yahoo.com.ar> wrote in message
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> You have to quote metacharacters if you want to match them. The escape
> method is useful for this:
>
> >>> re.escape('(a)')
> '\\(a\\)'
Doh! Of course! Thanks everyone.
-- Mike --