Raw string printing

Peter Otten __peter__ at web.de
Tue Sep 25 08:24:33 EDT 2007


Alexandre Badez wrote:

> I would like to do something like:
> 
> s = r"a\tb\n"

> print unraw(s) # <= this is the "magic" function I'm searching for
> # result with
> a    b
> n
> 
> Does any of you know how to do it properly ?

>>> print r"a\tb\nx".decode("string-escape")
a       b
x

Peter



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