Parsing strings?

[Michael Hudson]

tweedgeezer at hotmail.com (Jeremy Fincher) writes:

> Is there any way to turn a string (in Python format, escapes and all)
> into an actual Python string without using eval()?
> 
> I.e., I'd like to turn the four-character string "\\x00" into the
> one-character Python string "\x00" without using eval().  Is there any
> way to do that?

Don't think so -- and if there is, Lib/compiler/transformer.py would
like to know...

Cheers,
M.

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