escaping

[Kiuhnm]

On 4/16/2012 17:14, Jon Clements wrote:
> 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}

I thought that '%r' stood for 'raw' and not 'repr'. I didn't even notice 
that Steven removed the single-quotes from msg.
I don't even need to escape single-quotes then: repr() does exactly what 
I need.

Kiuhnm