Dave Angel wrote:
One hazard is if the string the user inputs has any regex special
characters in it. If it's anything but letters and digits you probably
want to escape it before combining it with your \\b strings.
It is best to escape any user-input before passing it to regex
regardless. The re.escape function will do the right thing whether the
string is all letters and digits or not.
>>> re.escape("dev")
'dev'
>>> re.escape("dev+")
'dev\\+'
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Steven
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