escaping
Steve Howell
showell30 at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 15 17:13:14 EDT 2012
On Apr 15, 2:07 pm, Kiuhnm <kiuhnm03.4t.yahoo.it> wrote:
> This is the behavior I need:
> path = path.replace('\\', '\\\\')
> msg = ". {} .. '{}' .. {} .".format(a, path, b)
> Is there a better way?
>
A little more context would help. The quadruple-toothpick idiom
predates Python. It's a little hard on the fingers and eyes at first,
but it's pretty expressive--most people will clearly see that you are
dealing with escaping issues.
If you are just printing a message to the log, consider repr().
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