Jan Danielsson wrote:
> Robert Kern wrote:
> [---]
>
>>>Hmm... On second thought, I need to escape more characters.
>>>
>>>Is there no other way to escape characters in strings?
>>
>>Which characters?
>
>
>I need to escape '\n', '"', '[' and ']'. I finally went with a few of
> these:
> strin
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 o
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 tabl
Jan Danielsson wrote:
> Robert Kern wrote:
> [---]
>
>>>Hmm... On second thought, I need to escape more characters.
>>>
>>>Is there no other way to escape characters in strings?
>>
>>Which characters?
>
>I need to escape '\n', '"', '[' and ']'. I finally went with a few of
> these:
> string.r
Robert Kern wrote:
[---]
>> Hmm... On second thought, I need to escape more characters.
>>
>> Is there no other way to escape characters in strings?
>
> Which characters?
I need to escape '\n', '"', '[' and ']'. I finally went with a few of
these:
string.replace('\n', '\\n')
string.replace('"'
Jan Danielsson wrote:
> Jan Danielsson wrote:
>
>>>In [3]: s.encode('string_escape')
>>>Out[3]: 'Hello\\nWorld!'
>>>
>>>In [4]: Out[3].decode('string_escape')
>>>Out[4]: 'Hello\nWorld!'
>>>
>>>Not *quite* what you asked for, but it ought to be close enough.
>>
>>That'll do just fine. Many thanks!
Jan Danielsson wrote:
>>In [3]: s.encode('string_escape')
>>Out[3]: 'Hello\\nWorld!'
>>
>>In [4]: Out[3].decode('string_escape')
>>Out[4]: 'Hello\nWorld!'
>>
>>Not *quite* what you asked for, but it ought to be close enough.
>
> That'll do just fine. Many thanks!
Hmm... On second thought, I need
Robert Kern wrote:
[---]
> In [3]: s.encode('string_escape')
> Out[3]: 'Hello\\nWorld!'
>
> In [4]: Out[3].decode('string_escape')
> Out[4]: 'Hello\nWorld!'
>
> Not *quite* what you asked for, but it ought to be close enough.
That'll do just fine. Many thanks!
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Jan Danielsson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to encode the string that outputs:
>
> Hello
> World!
>
> to 'Hello\x0aWorld!', and the string that outputs:
>
> Hello\World!
>
> to 'Hello\\World!'.
>
> Obviously, I want to be able to reverse the process.
>
> I'm going to assume this has already
