Re: Problems replacing \ with \\

2008-05-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry for the late response. I've been travelling internationally and am just getting back to work. So--thank you to everyone who responded! To answer everyone's question I am dumping all of the data from a mysql database, then creating a postgresql database, then inserting the data into

Problems replacing \ with \\

2008-04-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi... Here's a weird problem...I'm trying to escape a bunch of data to put into a database. Here's what I have: def escape(string): Escape both single quotes and blackslashes x = rfun\fun escape(x) 'funfun' string = string.replace('\\', '') return

Re: Problems replacing \ with \\

2008-04-21 Thread MRAB
On Apr 21, 11:48 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi... Here's a weird problem...I'm trying to escape a bunch of data to put into a database. Here's what I have: def escape(string): Escape both single quotes and blackslashes x = rfun\fun escape(x)

Re: Problems replacing \ with \\

2008-04-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTH -- Thank you for the response. I'm not sure I understand the last sentence, although I think I get the idea. How do I create a proper doctest? Thanks On Apr 21, 9:08 pm, MRAB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 21, 11:48 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi... Here's a

Re: Problems replacing \ with \\

2008-04-21 Thread Michael Torrie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi... Here's a weird problem...I'm trying to escape a bunch of data to put into a database. Is it possible to use the database API and prepared statements to avoid having to go through this exercise? Also, most database APIs work natively in unicode, so creating

Re: Problems replacing \ with \\

2008-04-21 Thread Gabriel Genellina
(top posting corrected) En Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:12:44 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: def escape(string): Escape both single quotes and blackslashes x = rfun\fun escape(x) 'funfun' string = string.replace('\\', '')