From de7fa61ba1322f60f61af7be2bcd0eebb1822060 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: root_admin <87634669+godwins3@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 17:16:32 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix: DeprecationWarning: invalid escape sequence '\+'

fix this issue arising when running a test suite https://github.com/AfricasTalkingLtd/africastalking-python/issues/54#issue-2360913351
---
 africastalking/Service.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/africastalking/Service.py b/africastalking/Service.py
index a596bd6..0b36800 100644
--- a/africastalking/Service.py
+++ b/africastalking/Service.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ def validate_amount(amount_str):
 
 def validate_phone(phone_str):
     try:
-        return re.match("^\+\d{1,3}\d{3,}$", phone_str)
+        return re.match(r"^\+\d{1,3}\d{3,}$", phone_str) is not None
     except ValueError:
         return False