David Brown wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 11:48:46AM -0700, James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > >> But for the record, I was trying to evaluate a string containing an >> escape sequence. Composing the escape sequence programmatically was the >> starting point. > > It's actually a good example because it is hard to to find a good use > of 'eval' that isn't better implemented some other way. In this > particular case, you wanted to find out what the parser itself did, > which is exactly what 'eval' is for. > > Also, unicodedata.lookup() can convert the named representations into > Unicode characters, and would be better to use in a real program. >
Agreed (using lookup). Of course, I was diverted into finding the answer to what I was doing wrong in the use of eval, and you provided the answer -- thanks. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
