From: Thomas Heller <theller@ctypes.org>
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:35:37 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: re.sub expands escape sequences in it's second argument.
X-Git-Tag: v2.4a1~1500
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6122c12031d89caa0d1a04ee485132d46496d5be;p=python

re.sub expands escape sequences in it's second argument.

Will backport to 2.3 myself.
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diff --git a/Doc/tools/mkhowto b/Doc/tools/mkhowto
index 65640568f7..e20480248a 100755
--- a/Doc/tools/mkhowto
+++ b/Doc/tools/mkhowto
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ class Options:
                 self.global_module_index = arg
             elif opt == "--dir":
                 if os.sep == "\\":
-                    arg = re.sub("/", "\\", arg)
+                    arg = re.sub("/", "\\\\", arg)
                 self.builddir = os.path.expanduser(arg)
             elif opt == "--paper":
                 self.paper = arg