On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 17:00 -0700, bvdp wrote:
> Let's see if this makes sense:
>
> >>> a='c:\\Program Files\\test'
> >>> a.decode('string-escape')
> 'c:\\Program Files\test'
Hint: try running
>>> print a
and see what's written - I think that the interpreter adds extra "\"
characters to escape things and make things more easy to read.
i.e.
>>> a = "c:\\test\\t"
>>> a
'c:\\test\\t'
>>> print a
c:\test\t
>>>
so when it displays strings in the interpreter it includes escape
characters, when it is printed though the output is straight to stdout
and isn't escaped.
Hope that helps,
Tim Wintle
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