Raw strings to normal strings conversion?

[James Stroud]

Nagarajan wrote:
> Is there a way by which I could obtain normal string form of a raw
> string.
> XML CDATA is returned as raw string. But I need the string to actually
> escape special chars.
> 
> Any idea?
> 

This doesn't seem clear. Perhaps an example of what you get and what you 
want it converted to.

In the meantime, see if urllib.unquote() doesn't do what you need.

James