[19:50] <teward> um... i think someone's regexp when writing up https://help.launchpad.net/Code/Git#Linking_to_bugs went screwy, because IIRC # isn't a protected character/keyword/symbol in regexp that needs escaped...
[19:50] <teward> can someone check my sanity in this case?  :|
[20:39] <nacc> teward: python-ism, i think
[20:39] <nacc> https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html, the re.escape section
[20:39] <nacc> https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.escape rather :)
[20:39] <nacc> I *think* because python regex can have comments in them
[23:35] <cjwatson> Escaping the # isn't necessary in this particular case, but it's also perfectly acceptable.