Simple regex that has me banging my head against a wall

[Timothy Grant]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 11:52:41PM +0100, Kalle Svensson wrote:
> Sez Timothy Grant:
> > Hi again.
> > 
> > I actually thought I had this regex thing down pretty well, but
> > I'm getting beat up by what I thought should be a simple one.
> > 
> > >>> x = '$1$asdfjke$lkjasdkjfsdasdfj'
> > >>> re.sub(r'\$', r'\\\$', x)
> 
> One \ too many, it seems.  The second argument to re.sub is not a regex, so
> you don't have to escape the $.
> 
I don't believe it is that simple.

>>> re.sub(r'\$', '\$', x)
'\\$1\\$asdfjke\\$lkjasdkjfsdasdfj'

That's why I'm a bit confused.


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