Escape special characters in pattern. This is useful if you want to match an arbitrary literal string that may have regular expression metacharacters in it. For example:
re.escape(pattern)>>> print(re.escape('https://www.python.org'))
https://www\.python\.org
>>> legal_chars = string.ascii_lowercase + string.digits + "!$%&'*+-.^_`|~:"
>>> print('[%s]+' % re.escape(legal_chars))
[abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789!\\$%\&'\*\+\-\.\^_`\|\~:]+
>>> operators = ['+', '-', '*', '/', '**']
>>> print('|'.join(map(re.escape, sorted(operators, reverse=True))))
/|\-|\+|\*\*|\*>>> digits_re = r'\d+'
>>> sample = '/usr/sbin/sendmail - 0 errors, 12 warnings'
>>> print(re.sub(digits_re, digits_re.replace('\\', r'\\'), sample))
/usr/sbin/sendmail - \d+ errors, \d+ warnings