[Tutor] Escape characters in strings

[Glen Wheeler]

  Hi,

  I was writing an internet script and when parsing text I came upon this
very problem.  Nothing I tried would stop python from considering \xxx to be
anything other than one character...the way I did it in the end was to
redesign the way I parsed the strings and 'ignore' the \xxx parts.
  This isn't helpful for you, since you obviously can't ignore them.  I am
just posting here to show that your not the only one who has encountered
this problem before...
  Hmmm, upon a bit of fiddling....

for i in s:
  if '\\' in repr(i):
    j = ''
    j = repr(i)[1:-1]
    n.append(j)
  else:
    n.append(i)

  Sorta works :)

  Glen

> [...]
>
> Doesn't work, that was the first thing I tried. For some reason Python's
not
> finding the '\' because it thinks '\300' is a single character rather than
> four.
>
> Even 'print x' will hide the \ in this case.
>