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Subject: Re: Correct syntax for pathological re.search()
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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:
>"\\\\chardef \\\\\\\\ = '\\\\\\\\".

  However, one can rewrite this as follows:

"`chardef `` = '``".replace( "`", "\\"*4 )

  . One can also use "repr" to find how to represent something:

  main.py

text = input( "What do you want me to represent as a literal? " )
print( repr( text ))

  transcript

What do you want me to represent as a literal? \\sout\{
'\\\\sout\\{'

  . We can use "escape" and "repr" to find how to represent
  a regular expression for a literal text:

  main.py

import re

text = input( "Want the literal of an re for what text? " )
print( repr( re.escape( text )))

  transcript

Want the literal of an re for what text? \sout{
'\\\\sout\\{'

  .