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osmo_vty: 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: Ibada798a214be97409b55556724f558b67da7365
Related: osmo-python-tests.git I47b1f1c1765acb1b935dcbcc54bbb5eb539db4f0
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M src/osmo_gsm_tester/obj/osmo_vty.py
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

git pull ssh://gerrit.osmocom.org:29418/osmo-gsm-tester refs/changes/81/32281/1

diff --git a/src/osmo_gsm_tester/obj/osmo_vty.py b/src/osmo_gsm_tester/obj/osmo_vty.py
index 6fee5dc..1b414c9 100644
--- a/src/osmo_gsm_tester/obj/osmo_vty.py
+++ b/src/osmo_gsm_tester/obj/osmo_vty.py
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@
         if not self.prompt:
             raise VtyInterfaceExn('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 disconnect(self):
         '''Disconnect.

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