Simple Problem

[ncf]

I know I've seen this somewhere before, but does anyone know what the
function to escape a string is? (i.e., encoding newline to "\n" and a
chr(254) to "\xfe") (and visa-versa)

Thanks for helping my ignorance :P

-Wes

[Paul Rubin]

"ncf" <no***************@gmail.com> writes:

I know I've seen this somewhere before, but does anyone know what the
function to escape a string is? (i.e., encoding newline to "\n" and a
chr(254) to "\xfe") (and visa-versa)

repr(s)

[Robert Kern]

ncf wrote:

I know I've seen this somewhere before, but does anyone know what the
function to escape a string is? (i.e., encoding newline to "\n" and a
chr(254) to "\xfe") (and visa-versa)

In [1]: s = "foo\n\xfe"

In [2]: s.encode("string_escape")
Out[2]: 'foo\\n\\xfe'

In [3]: repr(s)[1:-1]
Out[3]: 'foo\\n\\xfe'

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[ncf]

Thank you all for your replies. The repr() solution wasn't exactly what
I was looking for, as I wasn't planning on eval()ing it, but the
(en|de)code solution was exactly what I was looking for. An extended
thanks to Jp for informing me of the version compatibility :)

Have a GREAT day :)
-Wes