[Tutor] escape-quoting strings

[Marilyn Davis]

On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Chad Crabtree wrote:

> 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'

Thank you Chad.  This might be helpful in another circumstance.

It goes to show that I'm clueless without the help here!

Marilyn

> 
> out puts
> \new
> 
> not
> <newline>
> ew
> 
> the r at the front automaticly escapes special characters.
> 
> 
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