How to escape strings for re.finditer?

[Jen Kris]

When matching a string against a longer string, where both strings have spaces in them, we need to escape the spaces.  

This works (no spaces):

import re
example = 'abcdefabcdefabcdefg'
find_string = "abc"
for match in re.finditer(find_string, example):
    print(match.start(), match.end())

That gives me the start and end character positions, which is what I want. 

However, this does not work:

import re
example = re.escape('X - cty_degrees + 1 + qq')
find_string = re.escape('cty_degrees + 1')
for match in re.finditer(find_string, example):
    print(match.start(), match.end())

I’ve tried several other attempts based on my reseearch, but still no match. 

I don’t have much experience with regex, so I hoped a reg-expert might help. 

Thanks,

Jen