convert string to the "escaped string"

[Petr Jakes]

Hi,
I am trying to convert string to the "escaped string".
example: from "0xf" I need "\0xf"
I am able to do it like:

a="0xf"
escaped_a=("\%s " % a ).decode("strin g_escape")

But it looks a little bit complicated in this beautiful language to me
.....

Regards

Petr Jakes

[Petr Jakes]

small mistake in my previous posting, sorry!!!!
from "0xf" I need "\xf" of course
and mentioned code gives me "\0xf" of course.

Thanks for your postings

Petr Jakes

[Fredrik Lundh]

Petr Jakes wrote:

I am trying to convert string to the "escaped string".
example: from "0xf" I need "\0xf" I am able to do it like:

a="0xf"
escaped_a=("\%s " % a ).decode("strin g_escape")

But it looks a little bit complicated in this beautiful language to me

I suspect that optimizing for people who want to turn "0xf" into
chr(0) + "xf" isn't exactly a priority...

if that's really what you want, of course. are you sure you didn't
mean to write, say

chr(int("0xf", 0))

(that is, convert 0xf to a character) or

repr(chr(int("0 xf", 0)))

(that is, convert 0xf to a character, and convert that character to a
string literal)

?

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[Petr Jakes]

Fredrik, thanks for your posting. I really appretiate your reply and
your way how you kindly answer even stupid newbie's questions on this
mailing list.
I was trying: int("0xf") but I did not have idea about the optional
"base" parameter for the int function.
Thanks a lot.
Petr