Kay Schluehr wrote: > Usually I struggle a short while with \ and either succeed or give up. > Today I'm in a different mood and don't give up. So here is my > question: > > You have an unknown character string c such as '\n' , '\a' , '\7' etc. > > How do you echo them using print? > > print_str( c ) prints representation '\a' to stdout for c = '\a' > print_str( c ) prints representation '\n' for c = '\n' > ... > > It is required that not a beep or a linebreak shall be printed. > > First of all it has be remarked that it is impossible to a certain > extent. That's because e.g. c = '\a' and c = '\7' do represent the same > string but this ambiguity doesn't occur for many numbers. But lets > weaken the requirement and fix a canonical representation in case of > ambiguity. I'm still getting stuck here.
I don't understand the question. Wouldn't the canonical representation be repr(c) or repr(c)[1:-1]? Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
