from string to raw string

[Scott David Daniels]

Dan Perl wrote:
> Is there a way to convert a regular string to a raw string so that one could 
> get from '\bblah' to r'\bblah' other than parsing the string and modifying 
> the escapes?

Assuming you might mean something else, that something else might be:

    s = r'no_tab_\t_here'
    len(s.split()) == 1
    len(s.decode('string_escape').split()) == 2
    s = 'tab_\t_here'
    len(s.split()) == 2
    len(s.encode('string_escape').split()) == 1

-Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org