Backslash substitutions

[Vivien Mallet]

Hello,

How would you perform backslash substitution in a string, just like the
Python parser does?

Example:
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s = "\\n"
print s \n print ???(s)
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where '???' is a function that I wasn't able to find.

Just in case, another example:
--- s = "\\\\A\\tB"
print s \\A\tB print ???(s) \A B

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Thank you.

[Peter Otten]

Vivien Mallet wrote:

How would you perform backslash substitution in a string, just like the
Python parser does?

"\\\\A\\tB".decode("string_escape") '\\A\tB' _.encode("string_escape") # back again

'\\\\A\\tB'

Peter