On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > There are many special characters listed on > http://docs.python.org/library/re.html > > I'm wondering if there is a convenient function that can readily > convert a string with the special characters to its corresponding > regex. For example, > > "some.thing" => "some\.thing"
If you'd taken 45 seconds to scan the documentation: http://docs.python.org/library/re.html#re.escape re.escape(string) Return string with all non-alphanumerics backslashed; this is useful if you want to match an arbitrary literal string that may have regular expression metacharacters in it. Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
