Escaping certain characters

[Jan Danielsson]

Jan Danielsson wrote:
>>In [3]: s.encode('string_escape')
>>Out[3]: 'Hello\\nWorld!'
>>
>>In [4]: Out[3].decode('string_escape')
>>Out[4]: 'Hello\nWorld!'
>>
>>Not *quite* what you asked for, but it ought to be close enough.
> 
> That'll do just fine. Many thanks!

Hmm... On second thought, I need to escape more characters.

Is there no other way to escape characters in strings?