R. David Murray added the comment: re.escape was escaping too much previously, and this has been fixed in 3.7 (and only 3.7, because it may cause testing issues such as you have observed). See issue 29995.
A note needs to be added to the 'porting' section of whats new covering this. ---------- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation -Regular Expressions nosy: +docs@python, r.david.murray, serhiy.storchaka stage: -> needs patch title: change in interface for compiled regex.pattern -> change in re.escape output is not docuented in whatsnew type: -> behavior _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30147> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
