On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 21:30:15 +0000, Stefan Ram wrote: > Tony Flury <tony.fl...@btinternet.com> writes: >> >>> a = r'end' + chr(92) > > Or maybe, > > a = r''' > end\ > '''[ 1: -1 ] > > ? The first and the last line are messy, but in the middle, > the intended string is clearly visible.
You can use perl module for python. It is installable by pip. Perl has no problems with handling backslashes. https://pypi.org/project/perl/ What you need is something like this: mgogala@umajor:~$ perl -e '$a="abcd";$a=~s/$/\\/; print "$a\n";' abcd\ Python has a problem with backslashes: Python 3.8.5 (default, Jul 28 2020, 12:59:40) [GCC 9.3.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import re >>> a="abcd" >>> b=re.sub('$',chr(28),a) >>> b 'abcd\x1c' >>> b=re.sub('$',chr(0x41),a) >>> b 'abcdA' >>> b=re.sub('$','Z',a) >>> b 'abcdZ' >>> b=re.sub('$',chr(0x1C),a) >>> b 'abcd\x1c' >>> Any other character is shown as it should be, except backslash. -- Mladen Gogala Database Consultant http://mgogala.byethost5.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
