interpretation of special characters in Python

[TP]

TP wrote:

> So, the python print command *can* interpret these 4-character as a single
> character. It would be odd if there were no possibility to do the same
> thing when the characters are (i) stored in a python variable

Sorry, it works when using variables. Try for example:

col="[0;31m"
esc="\033"
colreset="[0m"
print esc + col + "foobar" + esc + colreset

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