Chris wrote: > In a program I'm writing I have a problem where a bit of text sent over > a network arrives at my server. If the person who sent the text made a > mistake typing the word and pressed backspace the backspace code is > included in the word for example hello is hel\x08lo. The \x08 is the > backspace key. How do I convert this string to a normal string (without > the \x08). If I print it to screen it appears normal, "hello" but if I > store it in a list it appears as hel\x08lo.
inefficient way, use split ("\x08") then recombine the splitted elements, or iterate thorough the list and create a new string, but dont add the backspace character -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list