How to escape all special characters for regex in Python?

We use re.escape() to escape the special characters −

The following code shows how all special characters in given string are escaped using re.escape() method

>>> p = '5*(67).89?'
>>> re.escape(p)
'5\*\(67\)\.89\?'

Rajendra Dharmkar

Updated on: 20-Feb-2020

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