[issue37106] python re.escape doesn't escape some special characters.

MANI M added the comment: sorry my bad query = "insert into table(column) values('{}')".format(escape("Hello'`~world")) -- ___ Python tracker

[issue37106] python re.escape doesn't escape some special characters.

MANI M added the comment: I've scripts which insert data into MySQL database. The values may contain symbols. Hence in order to escape that I use re.escape(). @erik.smith isn't re.escape() supposed to escape all the symbols. If not why is this introduced in 3.7 whereas previou

[issue37106] python re.escape doesn't escape some special characters.

MANI M added the comment: Thanks a lot for the info. May I know in what version of python the patches are applied? Because still 3.7.3 seems to have the issue. -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue37

[issue37106] python re.escape doesn't escape some special characters.

New submission from MANI M : Recently I figured out an issue in python3 re which doesn't escape some special characters. Not sure whether this bug has been reported already. Have attached screenshots for your reference. Steps to reproduce: 1. wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/