RE Module How to escape $

[Hans Nowak]

Prema wrote:
> Hi People !
> I'm trying to use the re.sub function to replace several instances of a
> PHP Variable eg "$Amount". Could someone please help with an example
> Thanks very much
> Mike

Sure...

 >>> import re
 >>> s = "I have $amount dollars"
 >>> re.sub("\$\S+", "foo", s)
'I have foo dollars'
 >>>

HTH,

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