sre_constants.error: nothing to repeat

Question

I am using a regex and I get the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File \"tokennet.py\", line 825, in 
    RunIt(ContentToRun,Content         


        

Answer 1

I suggest you to use re.escape(word), since your variable word may contain any regex special characters. I think the error came because of special characters present inside the variable. By using re.escape(variable-name), it escapes any special characters present inside the variable.

if re.search(r'\b'+re.escape(word)+r'\b', str1) and re.search(r'\b'+re.escape(otherWord)+r'\b', str1) and word != otherWord: