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import re
rx = r'[][._!"`\'#%&,:;<>=@{}~$()*+/\\?^|-]+'
text = "My name is * and he is *"
print( re.sub(rx, r'\\\g<0>', text) )

Success #stdin #stdout 0.03s 9612KB

stdin

Standard input is empty

stdout

My name is \* and he is \*

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