Kay Schluehr enlightened us with: > 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.
try "print repr(c)". Sybren -- Sybren Stüvel Stüvel IT - http://www.stuvel.eu/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
