In [1]: import re
In [2]: RE = re.compile('[\\\/\?%]')
In [3]: RE.search('abc')
In [4]: RE.search('abc?')
Out[4]: <_sre.SRE_Match at 0x1081bc1d0>
In [5]: RE.search('\\/asd')
Out[5]: <_sre.SRE_Match at 0x1081bc3d8>
None indicates non characters in the set are present in the target string.