On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:00:14 -0500, Edward K Ream wrote: >> The problem is because you are trying to represent a Python > program as a Python string literal, and doing it incorrectly. > > Yes, that is exactly the problem. Thanks to all who replied. Changing > changing '\n' to '\\n' fixed the problem.
Raw strings (r'this \n will stay') might help, too. See http:// docs.python.org/ref/strings.html#l2h-14 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
