On 24 Jul 2005 18:14:13 -0700, ncf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I know I've seen this somewhere before, but does anyone know what the
>function to escape a string is? (i.e., encoding newline to "\n" and a
>chr(254) to "\xfe") (and visa-versa)
>
>Thanks for helping my ignorance :P
Python 2.4.1 (#2, Mar 30 2005, 21:51:10)
[GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8ubuntu2)] on linux2
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>>> '\n\xfe'.encode('string-escape')
'\\n\\xfe'
>>> '\\n\\xfe'.decode('string-escape')
'\n\xfe'
>>>
Introduced in Python 2.3
Jp
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