Escaping certain characters

[Kent Johnson]

Jan Danielsson wrote:
> Robert Kern wrote:
> [---]
> 
>>>Hmm... On second thought, I need to escape more characters.
>>>
>>>Is there no other way to escape characters in strings?
>>
>>Which characters?
> 
> 
>    I need to escape '\n', '"', '[' and ']'. I finally went with a few of
> these:
> string.replace('\n', '\\n')
> string.replace('"', '\\"')

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Kent