more on unescaping escapes

[Tim Wintle]

On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 17:00 -0700, bvdp wrote:
> Let's see if this makes sense:
> 
>  >>> a='c:\\Program Files\\test'
>  >>> a.decode('string-escape')
> 'c:\\Program Files\test'

Hint: try running

>>> print a

and see what's written - I think that the interpreter adds extra "\"
characters to escape things and make things more easy to read.

i.e. 

>>> a = "c:\\test\\t"
>>> a
'c:\\test\\t'
>>> print a
c:\test\t
>>> 

so when it displays strings in the interpreter it includes escape
characters, when it is printed though the output is straight to stdout
and isn't escaped.

Hope that helps,

Tim Wintle