Kay Schluehr wrote: > This yields the hexadecimal representation of the ASCII character and > does not simply echo the keystrokes '\' and 'a' for '\a' ignoring the > escape semantics. One way to achieve this naturally is by prefixing > '\a' with r where r'\a' indicates a "raw" string. But unfortunately > "rawrification" applies only to string literals and not to string > objects ( such as c ). I consider creating a table consisting of pairs > {'\0': r'\0','\1': r'\1',...} i.e. a handcrafted mapping but maybe > I've overlooked some simple function or trick that does the same for > me.
if not else, you've missed that octal escapes consists of three digits, not one, so translating chr(1) to r"\1" doesn't work in the general case (e.g. len("\100") == 1, not 3) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list