Issue with regex backreference in Python

Question

I am not sure why this is not working. Perhaps I am missing something with Python regex.

Here is my regex and an example string of what I want it to match too:

    PHONE_REGEX        = "<(.*)>phone</\1>"
    EXAMPLE            = "<bar>phone</bar>"

I tested this match in isolation and it failed. I used an online regex tester and it matched. Am I simply missing something that is particular to Python regex?

Thanks!

Answer 1

由于\\在那里，您必须将字符串标记为原始字符串，方法是将r放在正则表达式的前面：

m = re.match(r"<(.*)>phone</\1>", "<bar>phone</bar>")