regex - python re.sub missing group name error -


i'm going crazy have no idea why i'm getting error:

traceback (most recent call last):   file "file.py", line 154, in <module>     main()   file "file.py", line 143, in main     dld = work()   file "file.py", line 100, in work     string1= re.sub(find_dev_line, dev_line_to_replace, string1)   file "c:\program files (x86)\python27\lib\re.py", line 151, in sub     return _compile(pattern, flags).sub(repl, string, count)   file "c:\program files (x86)\python27\lib\re.py", line 270, in _subx     template = _compile_repl(template, pattern)   file "c:\program files (x86)\python27\lib\re.py", line 257, in _compile_repl     raise error, v # invalid expression sre_constants.error: missing group name 

with these lines of code:

dev_line_searchterm = "^.+"+devname+".+$" dev_line_to_replace = str(os.path.join(start_dir, "downloads", devname, filename)) find_dev_line = re.compile(dev_line_searchterm, re.multiline) string1= re.sub(find_dev_line, dev_line_to_replace, string1) 

i dont have groups in these lines, why getting error?

dev_line_to_replace contains special characters have meaning regex engine. should escape devname , dev_line_to_replace using re.escape, avoid having special characters appear in search or replace patterns.


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