Escape chars in string

[Ivo Woltring]

Dear Pythoneers,

I have this app that I want to be able to present in more than 1 language.
To do this I use ConfigParser with an ini file.

My question:
when I 'get()' the message with ConfigParser the \t in the string is a
litteral and is not translated to a tab. Why is this so?
if I do tests with somthing like s = '&Quit\tAlt-Q' it does work.

What is the difference? and how can I get the desired behavior?

e.g.
[msg_quit]
uk = &Quit\tAlt-Q
nl = &Stoppen\tAlt-S
Hope y'all can help
Ivo.

[Jeff Epler]

Python 2.3 has a 'string-escape' codec. If you have a string like '\\t'
(a literal backslash followed by a t) and want to turn it into the
string '\t' (a tab character), you can use it for that purpose:

r"a\tb".decode("string-escape")

'a\tb'

Jeff

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[Ivo Woltring]

"Jeff Epler" <je****@unpythonic.net> wrote in message

Python 2.3 has a 'string-escape' codec. If you have a string like '\\t'
(a literal backslash followed by a t) and want to turn it into the
string '\t' (a tab character), you can use it for that purpose:

>>> r"a\tb".decode("string-escape")

'a\tb'

Jeff

Thanx!
exactly what i needed
Ivo.