[Tutor] convert '\\t' to '\t'

[Hy Python]

I understand this.
But what I really want to do is
convert things like "\\n","\\r","\\s", "\\x" to "\n", "\r", "\s", "\x"
So,  is there a universal way to convert "\\" to "\"

Thanks a lot.

Hy




>From: Magnus Lycka <magnus@thinkware.se>
>To: "Hy Python" <pythonpython@hotmail.com>, tutor@python.org
>Subject: Re: [Tutor] convert '\\t'   to  '\t'
>Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 08:15:40 +0100
>
>At 05:40 2003-01-16 +0000, Hy Python wrote:
>>Could anyone please give me some tips on converting things like '\\t' into 
>>'\t'?
>
> >>> "hello\\tworld".replace('\\t','\t')
>'hello\tworld'
>
>Note that \ is used as an indicator for certain special symbols.
>'\\' is thus used to indicate that the string actually contains
>a literal \. '\\t' means that the string contains a \ followed
>by a t. '\t' is the indicator for a tab character, and it's needed
>to make it explicit that we have a tab, and not just some space
>characters in the string.
>
>Thus replacing '\\' with '\' will never work. '\' is an incomplete
>control sequence. You can't use that out of context like that.
>
>
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