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  1. import re
  2. rx = r'[][._!"`\'#%&,:;<>=@{}~$()*+/\\?^|-]+'
  3. text = "My name is * and he is *"
  4. print( re.sub(rx, r'\\\g<0>', text) )
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Success #stdin #stdout 0.03s 9612KB
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My name is \* and he is \*
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Python 3 (python  3.12)
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