module re - \Q\E equivalent

[Fredrik Lundh]

Martin Richtarsky wrote:

> In Perl, you can do m|\Qsomestring\E| to turn off metacharacter
> interpretation temporarily and match given string as is. Is this
> possible with re? I haven't found any metacharacters or flags that
> allow this.

you can use the re.escape function to escape the literal string:

    re.compile("somepattern" + re.escape(somestring))

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