nummertolv enlightened us with: > myString = "bar\foo\12foobar"
Are the interpretations of the escape characters on purpose? > How do I print this string so that the output is as below? > > bar\foo\12foobar Why do you want to? > typing 'print myString' prints the following: > > baroo > foobar Which is correct. Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list