Do regular expressions from the re module support word boundaries (\b)?

Question

While trying to learn a little more about regular expressions, a tutorial suggested that you can use the \\b to match a word boundary. However, the following sn

Answer 1

This will work: re.search(r"\btwo\b", x)

When you write "\b" in Python, it is a single character: "\x08". Either escape the backslash like this:

"\\b"

or write a raw string like this:

r"\b"