When reading lines of data from a file in the from (no quotes!)
foo\x20bar
and I assign to a variable in a line line like:
f = file('infile', 'r')
for a in f:
print a
the string is read in as string with the literal characters 'f', 'o' ...
'x' , '2' ...
as compared to an assignment like:
a="foo\x20bar"
which is identical to
a="foo bar"
Okay, so far ... I think this is what I want since my program is using
space characters as delimiters and I'm trying to use the \x20 notation
to avoid splitting.
But, now the problem. When I finally assign the string with the \x20 to
a variable the literals are still there. And here I really want them all
nicely converted to the desired values.
So, the question is: is there an "unescape()" for strings so that
"foo\x20bar" is converted to "foo bar"????
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