Why isn't SPLIT splitting my strings

[Fredrik Lundh]

John Henry wrote:

> Oops!

for cases like this, writing

	"[" + re.escape(charset) + "]"

is usually a good way to avoid repeated oops:ing.

 > newString= re.split("[; ()\[\]", result)

 >>> newString= re.split("[; ()\[\]", result)
Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
sre_constants.error: unexpected end of regular expression

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