Escape chars in string

[Jeff Epler]

Python 2.3 has a 'string-escape' codec.  If you have a string like '\\t'
(a literal backslash followed by a t) and want to turn it into the
string '\t' (a tab character), you can use it for that purpose:
    >>> r"a\tb".decode("string-escape")
    'a\tb'

Jeff
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