Translating escaped characters

[Henrik S. Hansen]

Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com> writes:

>> How do you best go about translating characters like '\\n' to '\n'?
>
> Is this what you're looking for?
>
>>>> '\\n'.decode('string_escape')
> '\n'
>>>> '\n'.encode('string_escape')
> '\\n'

Precisely, thank you.

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