more on unescaping escapes

[bvdp]

andrew cooke wrote:
> do you know that a string with the letter "r" in front doesn't escape
> slashes?  it's intended for regular expressions, but would simplify things
> for you here too.
> 
> just do
> 
>   a=r'c:\\Program Files\test'
> 

Yes, I knew that. Unfortunately in my program loop I really don't have 
the opportuity to use a raw string.

But, good reminder. Thanks.