On Aug 23, 1:21 pm, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nagarajan wrote: > > Is there a way by which I could obtain normal string form of a raw > > string. > > XML CDATA is returned as raw string. But I need the string to actually > > escape special chars. > > > Any idea? > > This doesn't seem clear. Perhaps an example of what you get and what you > want it converted to.
Here is an example: >> rawstr = r'a\nb' >> print rawstr a\nb Now I need this newstr to actually interpret '\n', in other words, to behave like a normal string. > > In the meantime, see if urllib.unquote() doesn't do what you need. > > James And yes, unquote doesn't help. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
