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?
I am interested in this for the use of regular expressions. I would like to be able to accept re patterns as inputs either from a file or from a GUI tool and I would like to allow those inputs as regular strings and not force users to write patterns with double escapes. I naively thought there could be utilities for such a conversion either in the string module or the StringIO module but I don't see any utilities like that. So, any suggestions? Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
