Illegal literal or not?
Beni Cherniavsky
cben at techunix.technion.ac.il
Sun Jan 26 08:26:42 EST 2003
On 2003-01-24, LJ & MT Lareau wrote:
> Is it possible to have Python produce the following literal output in the
> interactive mode.
> '"Let's try this!", they said.'
> If so what is the Python statement. I've tried several ways
> and can't seem to produce it. Thanks for the help.
>
Instead of printing, you can just use the fact that a string literal (as
any expression) typed at the interactive prompt will print its repr.
This is very simple and almost gets there:
>>> '"Let\'s try this!", they said.'
'"Let\'s try this!", they said.'
Now let's do something the other replies didn't <wink>: create a class.
>>> class rawstr(str):
... def __repr__(self): # Yes, I know unevalable reprs are bad.
... return str.__repr__(self).replace('\\','')
...
>>> rawstr('"Let\'s try this!", they said.')
'"Let's try this!", they said.'
Just-my-`float("""0"""''"""."""''"""0"""''"""2""")`-shekels-ly y'rs,
Beni Cherniavsky <cben at tx.technion.ac.il>
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