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authorNeil Johnson <neil@matrix.org>2018-10-24 16:25:39 +0100
committerNeil Johnson <neil@matrix.org>2018-10-24 16:25:39 +0100
commit07126e43a4db2d898e015186902031c8311093cb (patch)
tree56c45f6cafd6ceaae2341b07de65c294327cd365 /synapse/api
parentremove white space (diff)
parentfix branch regexp (diff)
downloadsynapse-07126e43a4db2d898e015186902031c8311093cb.tar.xz
Merge branch 'develop' of github.com:matrix-org/synapse into neilj/fix_mau_init
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-rw-r--r--synapse/api/filtering.py5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/api/filtering.py b/synapse/api/filtering.py
index eed8c67e6a..677c0bdd4c 100644
--- a/synapse/api/filtering.py
+++ b/synapse/api/filtering.py
@@ -172,7 +172,10 @@ USER_FILTER_SCHEMA = {
                 # events a lot easier as we can then use a negative lookbehind
                 # assertion to split '\.' If we allowed \\ then it would
                 # incorrectly split '\\.' See synapse.events.utils.serialize_event
-                "pattern": "^((?!\\\).)*$"
+                #
+                # Note that because this is a regular expression, we have to escape
+                # each backslash in the pattern.
+                "pattern": r"^((?!\\\\).)*$"
             }
         }
     },