New submission from Lottie Price <[email protected]>:
Problem:
re.match("\\-", "\\-")
returns None.
I expected a match.
Context:
I have some random text strings I want to match against. I'm using re.escape()
to ensure that the text characters are not interpreted as special characters:
re.match(re.escape("-"), re.escape("-"))
As a result, strings with hyphens are coming back as above, and are not
matching.
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components: Regular Expressions
messages: 337272
nosy: ezio.melotti, lprice, mrabarnett
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: re.match() not matching escaped hyphens
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.6
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<https://bugs.python.org/issue36206>
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