"Phd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I'm writing a regex related program that lets the user supplies the regex
> definition. Is there an easy way to convert a string into a raw string?
There ain't no such thing as raw strings. Just 'raw' string *literals*,
where 'raw' denotes a mode for converting the literal in the code (which is
*not* a Python string) into a Python string.
Perhaps what you want is something like eval("r'%s'" % (raw_input(),)),
assuming no ' or " in user input.
Terry J. Reedy
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