Raw strings to normal strings conversion?

[Nagarajan]

Is there a way by which I could obtain normal string form of a raw
string.
XML CDATA is returned as raw string. But I need the string to actually
escape special chars.

Any idea?

[James Stroud]

Nagarajan wrote:

Is there a way by which I could obtain normal string form of a raw
string.
XML CDATA is returned as raw string. But I need the string to actually
escape special chars.

Any idea?

This doesn't seem clear. Perhaps an example of what you get and what you
want it converted to.

In the meantime, see if urllib.unquote() doesn't do what you need.

James

[Nagarajan]

On Aug 23, 1:21 pm, James Stroud <[e-mail]:

Nagarajan wrote:

Is there a way by which I could obtain normal string form of a raw
string.
XML CDATA is returned as raw string. But I need the string to actually
escape special chars.

Any idea?

This doesn't seem clear. Perhaps an example of what you get and what you
want it converted to.

Here is an example:

>rawstr = r'a\nb'
print rawstr

a\nb

Now I need this newstr to actually interpret '\n', in other words, to
behave like a normal string.

>
In the meantime, see if urllib.unquote() doesn't do what you need.

James

And yes, unquote doesn't help.

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:21:40 +0000, Nagarajan wrote:

On Aug 23, 1:21 pm, James Stroud <[e-mail]:

>Nagarajan wrote:

Is there a way by which I could obtain normal string form of a raw
string.
XML CDATA is returned as raw string. But I need the string to actually
escape special chars.

Any idea?

This doesn't seem clear. Perhaps an example of what you get and what you
want it converted to.

Here is an example:

>>rawstr = r'a\nb'
print rawstr

a\nb

Now I need this newstr to actually interpret '\n', in other words, to
behave like a normal string.

So you get a string with Newlines as two character sequence \n. You don't
get "raw" strings. That is a concept in Python source code. When the
program is running there is no such distinction between "raw" and "normal"
strings. Here's a solution:

In [87]: print r'a\nb'
a\nb

In [88]: print r'a\nb'.decode('string-escape')
a
b

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

[Nagarajan]

On Aug 23, 2:42 pm, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[e-mail]:

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:21:40 +0000, Nagarajan wrote:

On Aug 23, 1:21 pm, James Stroud <[e-mail]:

Nagarajan wrote:
Is there a way by which I could obtain normal string form of a raw
string.
XML CDATA is returned as raw string. But I need the string to actually
escape special chars.

Any idea?

This doesn't seem clear. Perhaps an example of what you get and what you
want it converted to.

Here is an example:

>rawstr = r'a\nb'
print rawstr

a\nb

Now I need this newstr to actually interpret '\n', in other words, to
behave like a normal string.

So you get a string with Newlines as two character sequence \n. You don't
get "raw" strings. That is a concept in Python source code. When the
program is running there is no such distinction between "raw" and "normal"
strings. Here's a solution:

In [87]: print r'a\nb'
a\nb

In [88]: print r'a\nb'.decode('string-escape')
a
b

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

Thanks a lot.