How to do special encode in string ?

[Troels Therkelsen]

In article <mailman.37.1087982922.27577.python-list at python.org>, fowlertrainer at anonym.hu wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> I'm hungarian, we use special characters like:
> á - a'
> õ -o"
> 
> etc.
> 
> I want to encode this characters to in config file I see these
> characters as \nnn format.
> And I want to decode it automatically with python.
> 
> How to I do it without write complex converter tool ?
> 
> Thanx for it:
> FT
> 
> Example:
> Encode("az állam én vagyok") -> "az \xe1llam \xe9n vagyok"
> 
> Decode("az \xe1llam \xe9n vagyok") -> "az állam én vagyok"
> 
> 

The easiest way is probably just to use repr/eval, like this:

Python 2.3.4 (#1, Jun  4 2004, 19:45:32)
[GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (release)] on linux2
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>>> repr("az állam én vagyok")
"'az \\xe1llam \\xe9n vagyok'"
>>> print repr("az állam én vagyok")
'az \xe1llam \xe9n vagyok'
>>> eval("'az \\xe1llam \\xe9n vagyok'")
'az \xe1llam \xe9n vagyok'
>>> print eval("'az \\xe1llam \\xe9n vagyok'")
az állam én vagyok

Not that repr() puts a set of '' around the string and eval() needs these in
order to 'parse' the string.

Hope this helps!

Regards,

Troels Therkelsen