Romano Giannetti wrote: > Hi, > > while writing some LaTeX preprocessing code, I stumbled into this > problem: (I have a -*- coding: utf-8 -*- line, obviously) > > s = ur"añado $\uparrow$" > > Which gave an error because the \u escape is interpreted in raw > unicode strings, too. So I found that the only way to solve this is > to write: > > s = unicode(r"añado $\uparrow$", "utf-8") > > or > > s = ur"añado $\u005cuparrow$" > > The second one is too ugly to live, while the first is at least > acceptable; but looking around the Python 3.0 doc, I saw that the > first one will fail, too. > > Am I doing something wrong here or there is another solution for > this? > > Romano > The backslash '\' is a meta-char that escapes the string. You can escape the char as following string u"....\\u....' insert another '\' before it.
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