Function escape

pattern/text/search.py:897–903

Returns the string with control characters for Pattern syntax escaped. For example: "hello!" => "hello\!".

(string)

    return compile(pattern, *args, **kwargs).search(sentence)

def escape(string):
    """ Returns the string with control characters for Pattern syntax escaped.
        For example: "hello!" => "hello\!".
    """
    for ch in ("{","}","[","]","(",")","_","|","!","*","+","^"):
        string = string.replace(ch, "\\"+ch)
    return string

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