[issue27586] Is this a regular expression library bug?

[Emanuel Barry]

Emanuel Barry added the comment:

For future reference, if your input can have arbitrary escapes, it might be a good idea to pass it through re.escape; it does proper escaping so that stuff like e.g. \g in your input will get treated as a literal backslash, followed by a literal 'g', and not an escape sequence.

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nosy: +ebarry
type: compile error -> behavior

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