How to use a variable inside a regular expression?

Question

I\'d like to use a variable inside a regex, how can I do this in Python?

TEXTO = sys.argv[1]

if re.search(r\"\\b(?=\\         


        

Answer 1

you can try another usage using format grammer suger:

re_genre = r'{}'.format(your_variable)
regex_pattern = re.compile(re_genre)