On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:00:18 +0100, Stef Mientki wrote: > hello, > > Is there a function to remove escape characters from a string ? > (preferable all escape characters except "\n").
Can you explain what you mean? I can think of at least four alternatives: (1) Remove literal escape sequences (backslash-char): "abc\\t\\ad" => "abcd" r"abc\t\ad" => "abcd" (2) Replace literal escape sequences with the character they represent: "abc\\t\\ad" => "abc\t\ad" (3) Remove characters generated by escape sequences: "abc\t\ad" => "abcd" "abc" => "abc" but "a\x62c" => "ac" This is likely to be impossible without deep magic. (4) Remove so-called binary characters which are typically inserted using escape sequences: "abc\t\ad" => "abcd" "abc" => "abc" but "a\x62c" => "abc" This is probably the easiest, assuming you have bytes instead of unicode. import string table = string.maketrans('', '') delchars =''.join(chr(n) for n in range(32)) s = string.translate(s, table, delchars) -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list