Python re.search simple question

[Zachary Ware]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Ganesh Pal <ganesh1pal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks ,
>
> This  might seem to be very trivial question but iam breaking my head over
> it for a while .
>
>  My understanding is that re.search should search for the match anywhere in
> the string .
>
>
> why is re.search failing in the below case  ??
>
>>>> pattern
> 'Token-based migrations cannot be mixed with level-based: [prev 0 , now 1]'

Your pattern here contains a character class ([enoprvw 01,]).  You'll
need to escape the '[' character to make it literal.

Hope this helps,
-- 
Zach