more on unescaping escapes
bvdp
bob at mellowood.ca
Mon Feb 23 20:31:20 EST 2009
Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> En Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:46:34 -0200, bvdp <bob at mellowood.ca> escribió:
>
>> Chris Rebert wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, bvdp <bob at mellowood.ca> wrote:
>>> [problem with Python and Windows paths using backslashes]
>>> Is there any particular reason you can't just internally use regular
>>> forward-slashes for the paths? They work in Windows from Python in
>>> nearly all cases and you can easily interconvert using os.pathsep if
>>> you want the path to be pretty when you show it to (or get it from)
>>> the user or whatever.
>>
>> Just because I never really thought too much about it :) I'm doing my
>> work on a linux box and my user is on windows ... and he's used to
>> using '\' ... but, you are absolutely right! Just use '/' on both
>> systems and be done with it. Of course I still need to use \x20 for
>> spaces, but that is easy.
>
> Why is that? "\x20" is exactly the same as " ". It's not like %20 in
> URLs, that becomes a space only after decoding.
>
> py> '\x20' == ' '
> True
> py> '\x20' is ' '
> True
>
> (ok, the last line might show False, but being True means that both are
> the very same object)
>
I need to use the \x20 because of my parser. I'm reading unquoted lines
from a file. The file creater needs to use the form "foo\x20bar" without
the quotes in the file so my parser can read it as a single token.
Later, the string/token needs to be decoded with the \x20 converted to a
space.
So, in my file "foo bar" (no quotes) is read as 2 tokens; "foo\x20bar"
is one.
So, it's not really a problem of what happens when you assign a string
in the form "foo bar", rather how to convert the \x20 in a string to a
space. I think the \\ just complicates the entire issue.
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