Steve, THANKS! That is exactly what I was looking for but unable to find.
Joe "Steven Bethard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Joe wrote: >> 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
