[Tutor] escape-quoting strings

[Chad Crabtree]

Marilyn Davis wrote:

>I got it!!
>
>This works:
>
>ad0 = address.replace('\\', '\\\\')
>ad0 = ad0.replace('\"','\\"')
>db_style0 = '''%%%s%%''' % ad0
>print "0:", db_style0
>
I thought I should tell you about raw strings  eg.

r'\new'

out puts
\new

not
<newline>
ew

the r at the front automaticly escapes special characters.


		
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