Re: Escaping certain characters
Jan Danielsson wrote:
Robert Kern wrote:
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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('', '\\')
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Re: Escaping certain characters
Jan Danielsson wrote:
In [3]: s.encode('string_escape')
Out[3]: 'Hello\\nWorld!'
In [4]: Out[3].decode('string_escape')
Out[4]: 'Hello\nWorld!'
Not *quite* what you asked for, but it ought to be close enough.
That'll do just fine. Many thanks!
Hmm... On second thought, I need to escape more characters.
Is there no other way to escape characters in strings?
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Re: Escaping certain characters
Jan Danielsson wrote:
Jan Danielsson wrote:
In [3]: s.encode('string_escape')
Out[3]: 'Hello\\nWorld!'
In [4]: Out[3].decode('string_escape')
Out[4]: 'Hello\nWorld!'
Not *quite* what you asked for, but it ought to be close enough.
That'll do just fine. Many thanks!
Hmm... On second thought, I need to escape more characters.
Is there no other way to escape characters in strings?
Which characters?
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Re: Escaping certain characters
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.
Write a codec.
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Re: Escaping certain characters
Robert Kern wrote:
[---]
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.
Write a codec.
Is that what string.encode() uses? Some behind-the-scenes codec? I
tried searching for it, but could only find UTF/Unicode-related
information. Is it in the normal python documentation?
Semi-Offtopic: The search facility in the Python help has stopped
functioning for me (I'm using XP on this system). No matter what I
search for, I get no results. A week ago, I got a lot of hits for almost
anything I searched for. Anyone seen this behavior, and knows what to do
about it?
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Jan Danielsson
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Re: Escaping certain characters
Jan Danielsson wrote:
Robert Kern wrote:
[---]
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.
Write a codec.
Is that what string.encode() uses? Some behind-the-scenes codec? I
tried searching for it, but could only find UTF/Unicode-related
information. Is it in the normal python documentation?
Semi-Offtopic: The search facility in the Python help has stopped
functioning for me (I'm using XP on this system). No matter what I
search for, I get no results. A week ago, I got a lot of hits for almost
anything I searched for. Anyone seen this behavior, and knows what to do
about it?
Use Google:
site:docs.python.org codecs
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Escaping certain characters
Hello, I'd like to encode the string that outputs: Hello World! to 'Hello\x0aWorld!', and the string that outputs: Hello\World! to 'Hello\\World!'. Obviously, I want to be able to reverse the process. I'm going to assume this has already been solved in Python.. But how? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Escaping certain characters
Robert Kern wrote:
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In [3]: s.encode('string_escape')
Out[3]: 'Hello\\nWorld!'
In [4]: Out[3].decode('string_escape')
Out[4]: 'Hello\nWorld!'
Not *quite* what you asked for, but it ought to be close enough.
That'll do just fine. Many thanks!
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