I currently have a Python program that reads in emails from a POP3 server. As soon as the message is read in it is fed directly into a PostgreSQL database for storage. Later, it is broken down into it's parts and displayed to the user.
My problem is that when I try to pass "\tsome text\xa7some more text\n" into the database it gives me a unicode decode error. At this point in the program I don't know what codec it is (I won't know that until I break apart the message later) and it may even be binary data so I just want to store it in the database with the escape characters, not as a decoded/encoded string. So, how do I store "\tsome text\xa7 some more text\n" as that instead of: " some text§ some more text " I don't have a problem escaping it so the above would look like "\\tsome text\\xa7 some more text\\n" as long as I have a way to later unescape it when I want to actual do something with the data. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
