In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, micahc wrote:

> 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.

In [6]: '\tsome text\xa7some more text\n'.encode('string_escape')
Out[6]: '\\tsome text\\xa7some more text\\n'

Ciao,
        Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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