Stef Mientki wrote:
hello,Is there a function to remove escape characters from a string ? (preferable all escape characters except "\n"). thanks, Stef
import string WANTED = string.printable[:-5] + "\n" def descape(s, w=WANTED): return "".join(c for c in s if c in w) James -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list