[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
optparse seems to be escaping control characters that I pass as arguments on the command line. Is this a bug? Am I missing something?
you're missing the distinction between the content of a string object, and how the corresponding string literal looks.
>>> x = {'delimiter': '\\t'}
>>> x
{'delimiter': '\\t'}
>>> x["delimiter"]
'\\t'
>>> print x["delimiter"]
\t
>>> len(x["delimiter"])
2
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