On 10/16/07, Massimo Di Pierro <mdipierro at cti.depaul.edu> wrote:
> Even stranger
>
> >>> re.sub('a', '\\n','bab')
> 'b\nb'
> >>> print re.sub('a', '\\n','bab')
> b
> b
>
You called print, so instead of getting an escaped string literal, the
string is being printed to your terminal, which is printing the
newline.