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From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
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Subject: Re: Correct syntax for pathological re.search()
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MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote or quoted:
>However, regex also uses backslash as an escape character.

  TeX also uses the backslash as an escape character:

\chardef \\ = '\\

  , the regular expression to search exactly this:

\\chardef \\\\ = '\\\\

  , and the Python string literal for that regular expression:

"\\\\chardef \\\\\\\\ = '\\\\\\\\".

  . Must be a reason Markdown started to use the backtick!