backslashes in lists

[Lucas Torri]

The backslash is a key to enter especial characters, like breakline: '\n'

There is two backslashes cause of this especial condition of this char, but
if you try print the specific string you will see that only one backslash
remain:

print alist[2]

On 3/12/07, Fabio Gomes <flgoms at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi list,
>
>   I'm trying to use a string with backslashes in a list. But Python parses
> strings in lists with repr().
>
>
> >>> alist = ['a', 'b', 'c:\some\path']
> >>> alist
> ['a', 'b', 'c:\\some\\path']
> >>> print alist
> ['a', 'b', 'c:\\some\\path']
>
>
>   I already tried str() and raw (r) but it didn't work. All I want is to
> keep a single backslash in the string since it is a path information.
>
>   Can anyone help me, please?
>
>   Thank you.
>
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