Hi, My application is receiving strings, representing windows paths, from an external source. When using these paths, by for instance printing them using str() (print path), the backslashes are naturally interpreted as escape characters.
>>> print "d:\thedir" d: hedir The solution is to use repr() instead of str(): >>> print repr("d:\thedir") 'd:\thedir' What I have not been able to figure out is how to handle escape sequences like \a, \b, \f, \v and \{any number} inside the paths. Using repr() on these escape sequences either prints the hex value of the character (if "unprintable" i guess) or some character ( like in the last example below). >>> print repr("d:\thedir\10") 'd:\thedir\x08' >>> print repr("d:\thedir\foo") 'd:\thedir\x0coo' >>> print repr("d:\thedir\100") 'd:\thedir@' Could someone clear this out for me and let me know how I can find the "real" path that I am trying to receive? /Henrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list