list of regex special characters

[Ben Finney]

goldtech <goldtech at worldpost.com> writes:

> I am looking for a list of special character in python regular
> expressions that need to be escaped if you want their literal meaning.

You can avoid caring about that by using ‘re.escape’, which escapes any
characters in its input character that are not alphanumeric.

> I searched and can not find the list. Any help appreciated.

    >>> import re
    >>> help(re)
    …
    DESCRIPTION
    …
        The special characters are: …

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Ben Finney