lex: Invalid regular expression for rule 't_POUND'. unbalanced parenthesis lex: Make sure '#' in rule 't_POUND' is escaped with '\#'. Traceback (most recent call last): File "./lex_re3.py", line 27, in lex.lex() File "../ply/lex.py", line 759, in lex raise SyntaxError,"lex: Unable to build lexer." SyntaxError: lex: Unable to build lexer.