This is not what I meant. My posting was a judgement error. You are right though that my intuition was leading me to something like this. However, I didn't realize that it was not necessary for what I was doing. But this is very educational too. It made me look up string decode, encode, and codecs in the library reference and I found out more about them. I'm sure it's going to be useful. Thanks!
Dan "Scott David Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dan Perl wrote: >> Is there a way to convert a regular string to a raw string so that one >> could get from '\bblah' to r'\bblah' other than parsing the string and >> modifying the escapes? > > Assuming you might mean something else, that something else might be: > > s = r'no_tab_\t_here' > len(s.split()) == 1 > len(s.decode('string_escape').split()) == 2 > s = 'tab_\t_here' > len(s.split()) == 2 > len(s.encode('string_escape').split()) == 1 > > -Scott David Daniels > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
