Escapes???

[Mike Fletcher]

In case you don't find some compiler switch that fixes it, here's a
simplistic mechanism that does the hex escaping (doesn't currently do the \n
etceteras, that's an exercise for the reader I suppose)...  Note the use of
raw strings in the test case!

import string

def dehex( rawstring ):
	set = string.split( rawstring, '\\x' )
	initial = set[0]
	for element in set[1:]:
		initial = initial + chr(string.atoi( element[:2], 16 ))
		initial = initial + element[2:]
	return initial

test = r"H\x1b\x23\x12art\x1b\x23\x01\n"

print `dehex( test )`

Enjoy,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: kern at caltech.edu [mailto:kern at caltech.edu]
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 4:21 PM
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: Escapes???


In article <8h8jg3$d66$1 at slb6.atl.mindspring.net>,
	aahz at netcom.com (Aahz Maruch) writes:
> In article <8h87u1$sga$1 at news2atm.raleigh.ibm.com>,
> Arinté <shouldbe at message.com> wrote:
>>
>>I am trying to write this escape seq to a device from python
>>"H\x1b\x23\x12art\x1b\x23\x01\n"
>>The \x1b\x23\x12 is supposed to be a command tell the device to do
something
>>special with "art", but python is making it look like this \x1b\x23\x12a
>>"rt".  Am I missing something on how to work with escape sequences?  Is
>>there another way to write hex values in a string.  I rather us \x00
because
>>that is what are testers are familiar with.
...