Message 65590 - Python tracker

Author	benjamin.peterson
Recipients	benjamin.peterson, rsc
Date	2008-04-17.20:44:14
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It seems that escape is pretty dumb. The documentations says that re.escape escapes all non-alphanumeric characters, and it does that faithfully. It would seem more useful to have a list of meta-characters and just escape those. This is more true in Py3k when str can have thousands of possible characters that could be considered alphanumeric.

It seems that escape is pretty dumb. The documentations says that
re.escape escapes all non-alphanumeric characters, and it does that
faithfully. It would seem more useful to have a list of meta-characters
and just escape those. This is more true in Py3k when str can have
thousands of possible characters that could be considered alphanumeric.

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