Pyspark: filter dataframe by regex with string formatting?

I've read several posts on using the "like" operator to filter a spark dataframe by the condition of containing a string/expression, but was wondering if the following is a "best-practice" on using %s in the desired condition as follows:

input_path = <s3_location_str>
my_expr = "Arizona.*hot"  # a regex expression
dx = sqlContext.read.parquet(input_path)  # "keyword" is a field in dx

# is the following correct?
substr = "'%%%s%%'" %my_keyword  # escape % via %% to get "%"
dk = dx.filter("keyword like %s" %substr)

# dk should contain rows with keyword values such as "Arizona is hot."

Note

I'm trying to get all rows in dx that contain the expression my_keyword. Otherwise, for exact matches we wouldn't need surrounding percent signs '%'.