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quoting strings

Hi,

is any equivalent to perl "quotemeta" function in python?
I know that I can use this on string: r'\\test'
but I need to do this on the variable

Thanks in advance

Michal
Jan 31 '06 #1
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Michal Duda wrote:
is any equivalent to perl "quotemeta" function in python?
s = re.escape(s)
I know that I can use this on string: r'\\test'
but I need to do this on the variable


your example is a string literal, which isn't really the same thing as
a RE pattern in Python.

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Jan 31 '06 #2

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