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Author vajrasky
Recipients ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, vajrasky
Date 2013-08-19.15:05:40
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$ ./python --version
Python 2.7.5+
$ ./python
Python 2.7.5+ (2.7:062533327ad2, Aug 19 2013, 22:44:52) 
[GCC 4.7.2 20121109 (Red Hat 4.7.2-8)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import re
>>> re.escape('_')
'\\_'

Python 3.3 and 3.4 got it right and don't escape the underscore.

Because many people are still doing their livelihoods with Python 2.7 and I am a compassionate person, here is the patch to fix the bug in Python 2.7.
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2013-08-19 15:05:40vajraskysetrecipients: + vajrasky, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett
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