It appears that Python treats the comand line string as a raw string.
what is the best way to work around the issue?
You probably want to use str.decode with the encoding 'string_escape'[1]
py> s = r'\n\t'
py> s
'\\n\\t'
py> s.decode('string_escape')
'\n\t'STeVe
[1]http://docs.python.org/lib/standard-encodings.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
