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Author	abarry
Recipients	Bruce Eckel, abarry, tim.peters
Date	2016-07-22.02:36:52
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Message-id	<1469155012.88.0.864459275677.issue27586@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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For future reference, if your input can have arbitrary escapes, it might be a good idea to pass it through re.escape; it does proper escaping so that stuff like e.g. \g in your input will get treated as a literal backslash, followed by a literal 'g', and not an escape sequence.

For future reference, if your input can have arbitrary escapes, it might be a good idea to pass it through re.escape; it does proper escaping so that stuff like e.g. \g in your input will get treated as a literal backslash, followed by a literal 'g', and not an escape sequence.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2016-07-22 02:36:52	abarry	set	recipients: + abarry, tim.peters, Bruce Eckel
2016-07-22 02:36:52	abarry	set	messageid: <1469155012.88.0.864459275677.issue27586@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2016-07-22 02:36:52	abarry	link	issue27586 messages
2016-07-22 02:36:52	abarry	create