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 file or from a GUI
tool and I would like to allow those inputs as regular strings and not force
users to write patterns with double escapes.
I naively thought there could be utilities for such a conversion either in
the string module or the StringIO module but I don't see any utilities like
that.
So, any suggestions?
Dan