RFC PEP candidate: q'<delim>'quoted<delim> ?

[Bengt Richter]

On 11 Mar 2002 03:58:38 GMT, bokr at oz.net (Bengt Richter) wrote:

>On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:31:45 +1300, Greg Ewing <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
>>Bengt Richter wrote:
>>> 
>>> Would someone explain this:
>>> 
>>>  >>> eval("list(r'\x07')")
>>>  ['\x07']
>>>  >>> list(r'\x07')
>>>  ['\\', 'x', '0', '7']
>>
>>The string literal you're passing to eval is
>>non-raw, so the \x07 gets interpreted before
>>eval even sees it. Try this instead:
>>
>>   >>> eval(r"list(r'\x07')")
>>
>Aaugh, touché & d'oh. That's embarrassing  ;-/
>
Especially since the original motivation was:
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|So how would '\x07' (single character)  be represented if it were part of pasted text?
|
|I guess I ought to try eval("r'\x07'") and see what happens ;-)
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I.e., I was _intending_ to get \x07 interpreted, to simulate pasting a single control
character into a raw string. In another post I just did it directly:

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| >>> '^G','\x07',r'^G'
| ('\x07', '\x07', '\x07')
|
|... where I typed Ctrl-G binary data into the source where the screen rendered ^G.
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I just fooled myself looking at all those list results ;-/

Regards,
Bengt Richter