Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:
> this doesn't work if you use the wrong quote. without introspecting the data
> in e you can't reliably choose whether to use "'%s'" '"%s"' '"""%s"""' or
> "'''%s'''".
Indeed.
> and again tools other than python will run into escaped quotes in the data
> which may cause problems.
Then use s.translate() or re.sub() for encoding.
> when i execute this i get a traceback
Sorry, it should be
e.encode('latin1', 'backslashreplace').decode('unicode-escape').
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