On 12/20/11 08:02, Arnaud Delobelle wrote:
Hi all,
I've got to escape some unicode text according to the following map:
escape_map = {
u'\n': u'\\n',
u'\t': u'\\t',
u'\r': u'\\r',
u'\f': u'\\f',
u'\\': u'\\\\'
}
The simplest solution is to use str.replace:
def escape_text(text):
return text.replace('\\', '\\\\').replace('\n',
'\\n').replace('\t', '\\t').replace('\r', '\\r').replace('\f', '\\f')
But it creates 4 intermediate strings, which is quite inefficient
(I've got 10s of MB's worth of unicode strings to escape)
You might try
def escape_text(text):
return text.encode("string_escape")
as documented at[1]
-tkc
[1]
http://docs.python.org/release/2.5.2/lib/standard-encodings.html#standard-encodings
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