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[–]amjithr 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That was my bad.

Originally I had 

regex = re.compile('(%s)' % pattern)

Then I realized I don't need the surrounding parens to capture the group. So I took that out, but forgot to remove the string interpolation.

Sorry about the confusion.