simple string question

[jwither]

"ryles" <rylesny at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>
>> There's probably a more general method covering all the escape
>> sequences, but for just \n:
>>
>> your_string = your_string.replace("\\n", "\n")
>
> py> s = "hello\\r\\n"
> py> s
> 'hello\\r\\n'
> py> s.decode("string_escape")
> 'hello\r\n'
> py>
>

Even though that's what I asked for, I'll stick with the "replace" for now.
But it's cool though: I can embed generic uni-code as well as simple escape 
sequences!

Thanks,
James Withers.