From b7e84031e310561469b99d62c99dd354e4fa6fe5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Turner <assembla@gregturner.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:37:18 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Escape strings for regex query.

---
 mongoengine/fields.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mongoengine/fields.py b/mongoengine/fields.py
index 866dc7e3..79045898 100644
--- a/mongoengine/fields.py
+++ b/mongoengine/fields.py
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ class StringField(BaseField):
                 regex = r'%s$'
             elif op == 'exact':
                 regex = r'^%s$'
-            value = re.compile(regex % value, flags)
+            value = re.compile(regex % re.escape(value), flags)
         return value