I'm using Python 2.4 on Windows XP SP2. I'm trying to receive a command line argument that is a newline (\n)
Here is the command line to use sample.py "\n" Here is a sample.py script import sys c = sys.argv[1] # when run c is set to \\n instead of \n. I created a test batch file echo %1 to confirm that it was not the cmd.exe command processor causing the issue. It appears that Python treats the comand line string as a raw string. Is this a bug? If not what is the best way to work around the issue? Obviously I could use a hack if c == '\\n': c = '\n' But surely there is a better way. NOTE that I used \n in my sample but I also want to support other escape sequences too. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list