escaping

[Jon Clements]

On Monday, 16 April 2012 11:03:31 UTC+1, Kiuhnm  wrote:
> On 4/16/2012 4:42, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 23:07:36 +0200, Kiuhnm wrote:
> >
> >> This is the behavior I need:
> >>       path = path.replace('\\', '\\\\')
> >>       msg = ". {} .. '{}' .. {} .".format(a, path, b)
> >> Is there a better way?
> >
> >
> > This works for me:
> >
> >>>> a = "spam"
> >>>> b = "ham"
> >>>> path = r"C:\a\b\c\d\e.txt"
> >>>> msg = ". %s .. %r .. %s ." % (a, path, b)
> >>>> print msg
> > . spam .. 'C:\\a\\b\\c\\d\\e.txt' .. ham .
> 
> I like this one. Since I read somewhere that 'format' is preferred over 
> '%', I was focusing on 'format' and I didn't think of '%'.
> Anyway, it's odd that 'format' doesn't offer something similar.
> 
> Kiuhnm

If you look at http://docs.python.org/library/string.html#format-string-syntax

you'll notice the equiv. of %r is {!r}