Peter Pearson wrote: Thanks for your answer.
> When you run echo, it recognizes the 4-character "esc" as a > convention for representing a single character, and performs > the re-interpretation for you. When you tell python > "print '\033[30;44m foo \033[0m'", python interprets > the "\033" as a single character. So, the python print command *can* interpret these 4-character as a single character. It would be odd if there were no possibility to do the same thing when the characters are (i) stored in a python variable, or (ii) come from the environment variables. Does anybody know any way to re-interpret a string in Python? I have tried to play with "eval" (as in bash), but it does not yield anything. -- TP (Tribulations Parallèles) "Allez, Monsieur, allez, et la foi vous viendra." (D'Alembert). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
