Jan Danielsson wrote:
> Robert Kern wrote:
> [---]
>
>>> I need to escape '\n', '"', '[' and ']'. I finally went with a few of
>>>these:
>>>string.replace('\n', '\\n')
>>>string.replace('"', '\\"')
>>>...
>>>
>>> I assume that's good enough, but I somehow expected there to exist
>>>some form of "insert your conversion table here" built-in string escaper.
>>
>>Write a codec.
>
> Is that what string.encode() uses? Some behind-the-scenes "codec"? I
> tried searching for it, but could only find UTF/Unicode-related
> information. Is it in the normal python documentation?
>
> Semi-Offtopic: The "search" facility in the Python help has stopped
> functioning for me (I'm using XP on this system). No matter what I
> search for, I get no results. A week ago, I got a lot of hits for almost
> anything I searched for. Anyone seen this behavior, and knows what to do
> about it?
Use Google:
site:docs.python.org codecs
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