On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 20:59:47 +0200 Manfred Lotz <ml_news at posteo.de> wrote: > I have a function like follows > > def regex_from_filepat(fpat): > rfpat = fpat.replace('.', '\\.') \ > .replace('%', '.') \ Not related to my question but the second replace must be: .replace('?', '.')