repr(string)

[David C. Ullrich]

In article <mailman.561.1216843813.922.python-list at python.org>,
 Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:

> David C. Ullrich wrote:
> 
> > I've been saving data in a file with one line per field.
> > Now some of the fields may become multi-line strings...
> > 
> > I was about to start escaping and unescaping linefeeds
> > by hand, when I realized that repr() and eval() should
> > do. Hence the question: If s is a string, is repr(s)
> > guaranteed not to contain line breaks?
> 
> yes.
> 
> just keep in mind that using eval() on untrusted data isn't a very good 
> idea.

Right. This data comes from me, gets put into a file and then
read by me. Someone _could_ corrupt that file, but someone who
could do that could more easily just throw the machine out
the window...

> </F>

-- 
David C. Ullrich