I am determining a regular expression that can recognize the any of the following strings:
MAT file log\20101225 deleted MAT file billing\20101225 deleted MAT file util\20101225 deleted MAT file carrier\20101225 deleted I begin by creating a regular expression object so that I can reuse it in multiple operations: test = re.compile('MAT file for log, billing, util, and carrier I use an arbitrary match: (log|billing|util|carrier) for 20101225 I use decimal digit with repetition match: \d{8} and finish with: delete') My question is how do I handle the backslash (NOTE: the match must only be a backslash)?
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