myString = "bar\foo\12foobar"
print repr(myString)
My "problem" was that I wanted to know if there is a way of printing
"unraw" strings like myString so that the escape characters are written
like a backslash and a letter or number. My understanding was that
repr() did this and it does in most cas
nummertolv wrote:
> - Consider a string variable containing backslashes.
> - One or more of the backslashes are followed by one of the letters
> a,b,f,v or a number.
>
> myString = "bar\foo\12foobar"
>
> How do I print this string so that the output is as below?
>
> bar\foo\12foobar
>
> typing
nummertolv enlightened us with:
> myString = "bar\foo\12foobar"
Are the interpretations of the escape characters on purpose?
> How do I print this string so that the output is as below?
>
> bar\foo\12foobar
Why do you want to?
> typing 'print myString' prints the following:
>
> bar oo
> foobar
I think I might have misused the terms "escape character" and/or
"escape sequence" or been unclear in some other way because I seem to
have confused you. In any case you don't seem to be addressing my
problem.
I know that the \t in the example path is interpreted as the tab
character (that was par
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 07:32:36 -0800, nummertolv wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My application is receiving strings, representing windows paths, from
> an external source. When using these paths, by for instance printing
> them using str() (print path), the backslashes are naturally
> interpreted as escape chara
