On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 10:54:51AM -0600, max . wrote:
> hello i am writing a simple password tester that uses a word list and am
> running into some problems when i read the words from a text file they are
> written to the screen with a backslash at the end and i cant seem to find a
> way to get rid of them
>
In Python, the backslash is a character escape character. In order
to include a backslash in a string, use a double backslash. Here
is some example code::
In [1]: s1 = 'abcd\\efg\\'
In [2]: s1
Out[2]: 'abcd\\efg\\'
In [3]: len(s1)
Out[3]: 9
In [4]: s1.replace('\\', '')
Out[4]: 'abcdefg'
Notice the length of the string (before removing the backslashes).
Each apparently double backslash actually has a length of 1.
Dave
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