Escapeism

[Matthew Warren]

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> [mailto:python-list-bounces+matthew.warren=digica.com at python.o
> rg] On Behalf Of Matthew Warren
> Sent: 03 October 2006 16:07
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: RE: Escapeism
> 
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: 
> > python-list-bounces+matthew.warren=digica.com at python.org 
> > [mailto:python-list-bounces+matthew.warren=digica.com at python.o
> > rg] On Behalf Of Kay Schluehr
> > Sent: 30 September 2006 18:02
> > To: python-list at python.org
> > Subject: Re: Escapeism
> > 
> > Sybren Stuvel wrote:
> > > Kay Schluehr enlightened us with:
> > > > Usually I struggle a short while with \ and either 
> > succeed or give up.
> > > > Today I'm in a different mood and don't give up. So here is my
> > > > question:
> > > >
> > > > You have an unknown character string c such as '\n' , 
> > '\a' , '\7' etc.
> > > >
> > > > How do you echo them using print?
> > > >
> > > > print_str( c ) prints representation '\a' to stdout for c = '\a'
> > > > print_str( c ) prints representation '\n' for c = '\n'
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > It is required that not a beep or a linebreak shall be printed.
> > >
> > > try "print repr(c)".
> > 
> > This yields the hexadecimal representation of the ASCII 
> character and
> > does not simply echo the keystrokes '\' and 'a' for '\a' 
> ignoring the
> > escape semantics. One way to achieve this naturally is by prefixing
> > '\a' with r where r'\a' indicates a "raw" string. But unfortunately
> > "rawrification" applies only to string literals and not to string
> > objects ( such as c ). I consider creating a table 
> consisting of pairs
> > {'\0': r'\0','\1': r'\1',...}  i.e. a handcrafted mapping but maybe
> > I've overlooked some simple function or trick that does the same for
> > me.
> > 
> > Kay
> > 

((I have no idea why the following was missing from my first attempt to
post, and since posting the thread has gone over my head, but wasn't the
OP just after a way to print user-inputted strings with '\' in
them?))...

I cant test this where I am, but would the following work

We have our literal user-inputted strings in a list,

l=['\a','\b','\c']    etc..

For s in l:
	for c in s:
		print c,
	print



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