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InteractVty: re.escape() the VTY prompt in connect()

The VTY prompt may contain regular expression metacharacters in it,
so the self.re_prompt will not match as expected.  One example is
the modem app in osmocom-bb.git using promot 'OsmocomBB(modem)'.

Change-Id: I47b1f1c1765acb1b935dcbcc54bbb5eb539db4f0
---
M osmopy/osmo_interact/vty.py
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

git pull ssh://gerrit.osmocom.org:29418/python/osmo-python-tests refs/changes/63/32063/1

diff --git a/osmopy/osmo_interact/vty.py b/osmopy/osmo_interact/vty.py
index f4b9aff..1cc299c 100755
--- a/osmopy/osmo_interact/vty.py
+++ b/osmopy/osmo_interact/vty.py
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
         if not self.prompt:
             raise Exception('Could not find application name; needed to decode prompts.'
                             ' Initial data was: %r' % data)
-        self.re_prompt = re.compile('^%s(?:\(([\w-]*)\))?([#>]) (.*)$' % self.prompt)
+        self.re_prompt = re.compile('^%s(?:\(([\w-]*)\))?([#>]) (.*)$' % re.escape(self.prompt))
 
     def _command(self, command_str, timeout=10):
         self.socket.send(command_str.encode())

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