Escapeism

[Sybren Stuvel]

Kay Schluehr enlightened us with:
> Usually I struggle a short while with \ and either succeed or give up.
> Today I'm in a different mood and don't give up. So here is my
> question:
>
> You have an unknown character string c such as '\n' , '\a' , '\7' etc.
>
> How do you echo them using print?
>
> print_str( c ) prints representation '\a' to stdout for c = '\a'
> print_str( c ) prints representation '\n' for c = '\n'
> ...
>
> It is required that not a beep or a linebreak shall be printed.

try "print repr(c)".

Sybren
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