diff --git a/pgdump-sort b/pgdump-sort
index 9694ac8..a256d95 100755
--- a/pgdump-sort
+++ b/pgdump-sort
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ RE_OBJDESC = re.compile(
 	'Schema: (?P<schema>.*?); '
 	'Owner: (?P<owner>.*)'
 )
-RE_SEQSET = re.compile("SELECT pg_catalog.setval\('(?P<name>.*?)'.*")
+RE_SEQSET = re.compile(r"SELECT pg_catalog.setval\('(?P<name>.*?)'.*")
 
 
 class state(Enum):
@@ -267,4 +267,3 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
 
 
 	pgdump_sort(dump, sdump, fsorted, **fsorted_args)
-