"Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
... > 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 -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list