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Written by da_667 on 2025-01-22 at 16:55

spending my day slamming my head into a concrete wall fixing invalid escape sequence warnings.

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Written by da_667 on 2025-01-22 at 17:21

when you reach the end and the python script runs with no more invalid escape sequences, and you're unsure on whether or not you fucked up all the regex sequences, or if you've committed the perfect surgical code incision, just to get python to shut the fuck up:

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Written by da_667 on 2025-01-22 at 17:44

We have a python script that we use internally that will, take a suricata 5 formatted rule, then try to dump a similarly formatted rule that should be nearly similar and should pass syntax validation for snort 2.9 and suricata 4. It was throwing a lot of syntax warnings for invalid escape sequences. New python syntax changes for escape sequences wants you to pass an r in front of your strings with escape characters to denote its a raw string.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52335970/how-to-fix-syntaxwarning-invalid-escape-sequence-in-python

Took me an afternoon, but no more syntax warnings, and it seems to be working as it did before so far

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