Yeah, you're right. I got it all twisted in my mind. It's late and I must be getting tired.
Thanks. Dan "Brian Beck" <[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? > > There's no such thing as a raw string, only raw string literals. In other > words, it's a syntax to tell the Python interpreter which characters in > your string are 'special' and has no effect on strings not input as > literals directly within your code. Strings from files or any input > besides the interactive Python shell will already be what you're looking > for. > > -- > Brian Beck > Adventurer of the First Order -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
