simulate backslash substitution identical to python parser

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

24 Apr 2001 16:55:28 +0200, Harald Kirsch <kirschh at lionbioscience.com> pisze:

> Given that I have space1, is there a function which does the same
> translation as does the python interpreter when interpreting/compiling
> the line (*) such that in this case I end up with just one backslash?

Perhaps it would be easier to go the opposite way and apply repr to
a string to add backslashes.

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