escaping

[Kiuhnm]

On 4/16/2012 12:03, Kiuhnm wrote:
> On 4/16/2012 4:42, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 23:07:36 +0200, Kiuhnm wrote:
>>
>>> This is the behavior I need:
>>> path = path.replace('\\', '\\\\')
>>> msg = ". {} .. '{}' .. {} .".format(a, path, b)
>>> Is there a better way?
>>
>>
>> This works for me:
>>
>>>>> a = "spam"
>>>>> b = "ham"
>>>>> path = r"C:\a\b\c\d\e.txt"
>>>>> msg = ". %s .. %r .. %s ." % (a, path, b)
>>>>> print msg
>> . spam .. 'C:\\a\\b\\c\\d\\e.txt' .. ham .
>
> I like this one. Since I read somewhere that 'format' is preferred over
> '%', I was focusing on 'format' and I didn't think of '%'.
> Anyway, it's odd that 'format' doesn't offer something similar.

On second thought, I also need to escape single quotes, so I'll just use 
this:
   def _escapeStr(str):
       return str.replace('\\', '\\\\').replace("'", "\\'")

Kiuhnm