The match still succeeds, even though the dot "." is not present in the input string. It succeeds because the dot is a metacharacter — a character with special meaning interpreted by the matcher. The metacharacter "." means "any character" which is why the match succeeds in this example...
"', but that doesn't really solve the problem. Instead, you can escape any quote character inside the string, and it will lose its special meaning (in this case, the special meaning is to close the string). To escape a character, prepend it with the backslash character. The backslash c...
Consider the below example, where (\) doesn't have special meaning, s='Hi\xHello' Output The output of the above example is: File "main.py", line 1 s='Hi\xHello' ^ SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \xXX ...
The match still succeeds, even though the dot "." is not present in the input string. It succeeds because the dot is ametacharacter— a character with special meaning interpreted by the matcher. The metacharacter "." means "any character" which is why the match succeeds in this example. ...