Usually I struggle a short while with \ and either succeed or give up. Today I'm in a different mood and don't give up. So here is my question:
You have an unknown character string c such as '\n' , '\a' , '\7' etc. How do you echo them using print? print_str( c ) prints representation '\a' to stdout for c = '\a' print_str( c ) prints representation '\n' for c = '\n' ... It is required that not a beep or a linebreak shall be printed. First of all it has be remarked that it is impossible to a certain extent. That's because e.g. c = '\a' and c = '\7' do represent the same string but this ambiguity doesn't occur for many numbers. But lets weaken the requirement and fix a canonical representation in case of ambiguity. I'm still getting stuck here. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
