How To Escape Rethinkdb Regex Pattern For R.match

I want to search with r.match in rethinkdb using user input - whole user input should be treated as search pattern. I'm creating regex based on user input like this: pattern = u'.*

Solution 1:

Use the re.escape() function for this:

re escape

escape(string)

Return string with all non-alphanumerics backslashed; this is useful if you want to match an arbitrary literal string that may have regular expression metacharacters in it.