[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 31 srp, 12:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lawrence Oluyede) wrote: >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > If you mean on operating system then unfortunately Windows XP. >> >> I don't know for sure but maybe it doesn't support all ASCII escapes >> codes. >> >> Why do you care about \b anyway :-) ? >> >> -- >> Lawrence, oluyede.org - neropercaso.it >> "It is difficult to get a man to understand >> something when his salary depends on not >> understanding it" - Upton Sinclair > > Hi, > > I need this inevitable for my "programming language", for code > indentation. I don't know how to write script with module tokenize > for code indentation.
Still not giving up reinventing the wheel? You should take some lessons on syntax analysis before attempting this. But I know this words won't be heard... So, to your actual problem: that backspace is removing a character is something an editor or a terminal do, because they interpret the backspace. You wouldn't expect the string "<font color="blue">foo</font>" to be rendered blue by magic as well, wouldn't you? So what you need to do is: search the string for backspaces, and remove the BS as well as the character before. Something along these lines (untested): teststring = "abc\bcde\b" while teststring.find("\b") > -1: pos = teststring.find("\b") teststring = teststring[:pos-1] + teststring[pos+1:] Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list