escaping/encoding/formatting in python

[rusi]

On Apr 6, 6:56 am, Steve Howell <showel... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> One of the biggest nuisances for programmers, just beneath date/time
> APIs in the pantheon of annoyances, is that we are constantly dealing
> with escaping/encoding/formatting issues.

[OT for this list]
If you run
$ find /usr/share/emacs/23.3/lisp/ -name '*.gz'|xargs zgrep '\\\\\\\\\\
\\\\\\'
you can get quite a few results.

[Suitable assumptions: linux box with emacs installed]