diff --git a/bgstally/utils.py b/bgstally/utils.py
index 16d023c..3796dfe 100644
--- a/bgstally/utils.py
+++ b/bgstally/utils.py
@@ -153,5 +153,5 @@ def string_to_alphanumeric(s: str) -> str:
     Returns:
         str: The cleaned string
     """
-    pattern: re.Pattern = re.compile('[\W_]+')
+    pattern: re.Pattern = re.compile(r'[\W_]+')
     return pattern.sub('', s)
diff --git a/bgstally/widgets.py b/bgstally/widgets.py
index 22bf3c6..f865043 100644
--- a/bgstally/widgets.py
+++ b/bgstally/widgets.py
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ class to convert text with a limited set of Discord-supported ansi color codes t
 
     # define some regexes which will come in handy in filtering
     # out the ansi color codes
-    color_pat = re.compile("\x01?\x1b(\[[\d;]*m?)\x02?")
-    inner_color_pat = re.compile("^\[([\d;]*)m$")
+    color_pat = re.compile(r'\x01?\x1b(\[[\d;]*m?)\x02?')
+    inner_color_pat = re.compile(r'^\[([\d;]*)m$')
 
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         """