"ryles" <ryle...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:b96be200-9762-4f92-bd0d-9be076bcd...@y20g2000vbk.googlegroups.com... > >> There's probably a more general method covering all the escape >> sequences, but for just \n: >> >> your_string = your_string.replace("\\n", "\n") > > py> s = "hello\\r\\n" > py> s > 'hello\\r\\n' > py> s.decode("string_escape") > 'hello\r\n' > py> >
Even though that's what I asked for, I'll stick with the "replace" for now. But it's cool though: I can embed generic uni-code as well as simple escape sequences! Thanks, James Withers. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
