James Laver added the comment:

I looked up quotemeta with perldoc and you're right, it will quote the hyphen. 
Given that python's regex engine correctly deals with unnecessarily quoted 
characters, I suppose this is fine.

----------
resolution:  -> wont fix
status: open -> closed

_______________________________________
Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org>
<http://bugs.python.org/issue18662>
_______________________________________
_______________________________________________
Python-bugs-list mailing list
Unsubscribe: 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com

Reply via email to