On 05/19/2010 08:34 PM, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
How can I unescape a raw string so that it behaves as a non-raw string?
For example, if I read the string "\n\t A B C\" D E F \xa0 \u1234"
from a text file, how can I convert (unescape?) this string so that
\n, \t, \", \x, and \u get converted to a newline, tab, double quote,
hex encoded and unicode encoded chars?
I know I can do this explictly via a series of .replace() methods, but
certainly there must be a built-in way to do this on a generic basis?
Thank you,
Malcolm
That question makes no sense -- a string is a string is a string in
Python. The syntax you use to specify the string (for instance, raw or
not, hex characters or not, or one or another quote choice) is
irrelevant and completely forgotten once the string is internal.
No need to use replace, the \n is already stored as a newline, and the
\t as a tab and so on. Various methods of output may or may not
convert those characters back into \n and \t and so on. But that's a
matter of output not internal storage.
So tell us what you're trying to accomplish -- and better also tell us
Python2 or Python3?
Gary Herron
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