[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi > > i created a script to ask user for an input that can be a pattern > right now, i use re to compile that pattern > pat = re.compile(r"%s" %(userinput) ) #userinput is passed from > command line argument > if the user key in a pattern , eg [-] , and my script will search some > lines that contains [-] > > pat.findall(lines) > > but the script produce some error: sre_constants.error: unexpected end > of regular expression > > how can i successful catch patterns such as "[-]" in my regexp > compilation where input is unknown...?
Maybe you want pat = re.compile(re.escape(userinput)) Kent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
