[issue36206] re.match() not matching escaped hyphens

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[issue36206] re.match() not matching escaped hyphens

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[issue36206] re.match() not matching escaped hyphens

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[issue36206] re.match() not matching escaped hyphens

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[issue36206] re.match() not matching escaped hyphens

Steven D'Aprano added the comment: You don't escape the text you are searching. Try this: py> re.match(re.escape('-'), "-") <_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(0, 1), match='-'> py> re.match(re.escape('a-c'), "a-c") <_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(0, 3), match='a-c'> -- nosy:

[issue36206] re.match() not matching escaped hyphens

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[issue36206] re.match() not matching escaped hyphens

Josh Rosenberg added the comment: "\\-" is equivalent to the raw string r"\-" (that it, it has one backslash, followed by a hyphen). \X (where X is any ASCII non-letter, non-digit) matches the character itself (the escape does nothing except ensure the punctuation doesn't have any special

[issue36206] re.match() not matching escaped hyphens

New submission from Lottie Price : Problem: re.match("\\-", "\\-") returns None. I expected a match. Context: I have some random text strings I want to match against. I'm using re.escape() to ensure that the text characters are not interpreted as special characters: