German umlaut in a string.

[Michael Hudson]

Lukas Kasprowicz <nospam at maniacxs.de> writes:

> Hi Leszek,
> 
> When I create a string with
> 
>         <variable>="String"
> 
> It works!
> 
> But I have a string that was converted from a tuple to a string.

Oh, hang on... when you 'str' a tuple, its contents get 'repr'ed, so
you get backslash escapes...


Cheers,
mwh
PS: You want to be using the .replace() string method for things like
    this

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