String escaping utility for Python (was: Rawest raw string literals)

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 12:30 PM, eryk sun <eryksun at gmail.com> wrote:
> The X terminals that I've used make it easy to copy text to the
> clipboard. For Windows, it's a pain prior to Windows 10 since the
> legacy console only does rectangular selection. The Windows 10 console
> does line-wrapped selection.

This is true, but if you're using Python for simple text manipulation
as I suggest here, rectangular selection is usually fine. At worst,
you have to rejoin the lines after you paste.

ChrisA