Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> Hi Pythonistas,
> 
> I need to convert ascii escapes into binary form, e.g.:
> \f -> ^L
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]@
> 
> (rvalues in terminal representation)
> 
> Any idea, how to do this most elegantly in python?
> Do I really need to do a search n'replace orgy, combined with 
> regex for this task?

In [11]: s = '\\f'

In [12]: s.decode('string_escape')
Out[12]: '\x0c'

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