Jan Danielsson wrote: > Robert Kern wrote: > [---] > >>>Hmm... On second thought, I need to escape more characters. >>> >>>Is there no other way to escape characters in strings? >> >>Which characters? > > I need to escape '\n', '"', '[' and ']'. I finally went with a few of > these: > string.replace('\n', '\\n') > string.replace('"', '\\"') > ... > > I assume that's good enough, but I somehow expected there to exist > some form of "insert your conversion table here" built-in string escaper.
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