A bug in Python's regular expression engine?

[Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality]

    This won't compile for me:


regex = re.compile('(.*\\).*')


    I get the error:


sre_constants.error: unbalanced parenthesis


    I'm running Python 2.5 on WinXP.  I've tried this expression with 
another RE engine in another language and it works just fine which leads me 
to believe the problem is Python.  Can anyone confirm or deny this bug?
    Thank you...