Two problems with backslashes

[Gustaf Liljegren]

"Emile van Sebille" <emile at fenx.com> wrote:

>So it appears to work here using getopt.  Something else must be going
>on. Can you post an example that generates the string with the embedded
>tabs? 

Thank you. I had no idea that Python would add the extra backslash 
automatically. Tried to isolate the problem before trying the whole thing 
on getopt. This solved the problem on a more appropriate level.

Regards,

Gustaf Liljegren