backslash in regular expression problem

[Keith Murphy]

how does re.escape help?

>>> str = '\\\hi'
>>> str
'\\\\hi'
>>> print str
\\hi
>>> import re
>>> x = re.escape(str)
>>> x
'\\\\\\\\hi'
>>> print x
\\\\hi
>>>

i want to display the actual string, and also be able to write it to a
file...  thanks,

keith

In article <m3g0pu7kix.fsf at atrus.jesus.cam.ac.uk>,
  Michael Hudson <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Keith Murphy <kpmurphy at my-deja.com> writes:
>
> > what if instead of having '\\stuff' you have a str = '\\stuff'  ?
> >
> > i know that you can print r'\\stuff' but you can't print rstr...
> >
> > how do you use the raw with a variable?
>
> You don't.  You do know about re.escape?  Asking that question
> suggests you might not...
>
> Cheers,
> M.
>
> --
>   I saw `cout' being shifted "Hello world" times to the left and
>   stopped right there.                                -- Steve Gonedes
>


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