On 07/03/2019 14:16, jim.womeld...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, October 1, 2016 at 7:41:40 PM UTC-5, Ned Batchelder wrote:
>> On Saturday, October 1, 2016 at 6:25:16 PM UTC-4, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>>> * Ben Finney (Sun, 02 Oct 2016 07:12:46 +1100)
>>>>
>>>> Thorsten Kampe <thors...@thorstenkampe.de> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> ConfigParser escapes `\n` in ini values as `\\n`.
>>>
>>> Indenting solves the problem. I'd rather keep it one line per value
>>> but it solves the problem.
>>
>> If you want to have \n mean a newline in your config file, you can
>> do the conversion after you read the value:
>>
>> >>> "a\\nb".decode("string-escape")
>> 'a\nb'
>>
>> --Ned.
>
> Wow! Thanks so much Ned. I've been looking for the solution to this issue
> for several days and had nearly given up.
> Jim
>
How does that translate to Python3?
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