Re: from string to raw string

2004-12-15 Thread Dan Perl
This is not what I meant. My posting was a judgement error. You are right though that my intuition was leading me to something like this. However, I didn't realize that it was not necessary for what I was doing. But this is very educational too. It made me look up string decode, encode, and

Re: from string to raw string

2004-12-15 Thread Scott David Daniels
Dan Perl wrote: Is there a way to convert a regular string to a raw string so that one could get from '\bblah' to r'\bblah' other than parsing the string and modifying the escapes? Assuming you might mean something else, that something else might be: s = r'no_tab_\t_here' len(s.split()) ==

Re: from string to raw string

2004-12-14 Thread TZOTZIOY
On 14 Dec 2004 05:11:07 -0800, rumours say that [EMAIL PROTECTED] might have written: >Dan Perl wrote: >> Yeah, you're right. I got it all twisted in my mind. It's late and >>I must be getting tired. >Perl & Twisted in the same thread, that should fool the search engines >:D Now, if only Sam R

Re: from string to raw string

2004-12-14 Thread chris . lyon
Dan Perl wrote: > Yeah, you're right. I got it all twisted in my mind. It's late and I must > be getting tired. > Perl & Twisted in the same thread, that should fool the search engines :D -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: from string to raw string

2004-12-14 Thread Phd
Hi, I recently asked the same question, the response I got was that just use the string. There is no raw string object so the conversion doesn't exist. As far as I know, I haven't run into any problem Take a try. Please let me know if there is any problem with this approach. Good luck Dan Perl

from string to raw string

2004-12-14 Thread Dan Perl
Is there a way to convert a regular string to a raw string so that one could get from '\bblah' to r'\bblah' other than parsing the string and modifying the escapes? I am interested in this for the use of regular expressions. I would like to be able to accept re patterns as inputs either from a

Re: from string to raw string

2004-12-14 Thread Dan Perl
Yeah, you're right. I got it all twisted in my mind. It's late and I must be getting tired. Thanks. Dan "Brian Beck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dan Perl wrote: >> Is there a way to convert a regular string to a raw string so that one >> could get from '\bb

Re: from string to raw string

2004-12-13 Thread Brian Beck
Dan Perl wrote: Is there a way to convert a regular string to a raw string so that one could get from '\bblah' to r'\bblah' other than parsing the string and modifying the escapes? There's no such thing as a raw string, only raw string literals. In other words, it's a syntax to tell the Python i