convert ascii escapes into binary form
Hans-Peter Jansen
hpj at urpla.net
Wed Jul 20 14:14:32 EDT 2005
Robert Kern wrote:
> Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
>> Hi Pythonistas,
>>
>> I need to convert ascii escapes into binary form, e.g.:
>> \f -> ^L
>> \033@\x1bk\000 -> ^[@^[k^@
>>
>> (rvalues in terminal representation)
>>
>> Any idea, how to do this most elegantly in python?
>> Do I really need to do a search n'replace orgy, combined with
>> regex for this task?
>
> In [11]: s = '\\f'
>
> In [12]: s.decode('string_escape')
> Out[12]: '\x0c'
That did the trick, thanks a lot, Peter. Unfortunately, on the
target system, there's still python 2.0 running :-( Looks like
I've to bite the apple..
Pete
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