Raw strings to normal strings conversion?

[Nagarajan]

Is there a way by which I could obtain normal string form of a raw
string.
XML CDATA is returned as raw string. But I need the string to actually
escape special chars.

Any idea?

[James Stroud]

Re: Raw strings to normal strings conversion?

Nagarajan wrote:

Is there a way by which I could obtain normal string form of a raw
string.
XML CDATA is returned as raw string. But I need the string to actually
escape special chars.
>
Any idea?
>

This doesn't seem clear. Perhaps an example of what you get and what you
want it converted to.

In the meantime, see if urllib.unquote( ) doesn't do what you need.

James

[Nagarajan]

Re: Raw strings to normal strings conversion?

On Aug 23, 1:21 pm, James Stroud <jstr...@mbi.uc la.eduwrote:

Nagarajan wrote:

Is there a way by which I could obtain normal string form of a raw
string.
XML CDATA is returned as raw string. But I need the string to actually
escape special chars.

>

Any idea?

>
This doesn't seem clear. Perhaps an example of what you get and what you
want it converted to.

Here is an example:

>rawstr = r'a\nb'
>print rawstr

a\nb

Now I need this newstr to actually interpret '\n', in other words, to
behave like a normal string.

>
In the meantime, see if urllib.unquote( ) doesn't do what you need.
>
James

And yes, unquote doesn't help.

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

Re: Raw strings to normal strings conversion?

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:21:40 +0000, Nagarajan wrote:

On Aug 23, 1:21 pm, James Stroud <jstr...@mbi.uc la.eduwrote:

>Nagarajan wrote:

Is there a way by which I could obtain normal string form of a raw
string.
XML CDATA is returned as raw string. But I need the string to actually
escape special chars.

>>

Any idea?

>>
>This doesn't seem clear. Perhaps an example of what you get and what you
>want it converted to.

>
Here is an example:

>>rawstr = r'a\nb'
>>print rawstr

a\nb
>
Now I need this newstr to actually interpret '\n', in other words, to
behave like a normal string.

So you get a string with Newlines as two character sequence \n. You don't
get "raw" strings. That is a concept in Python source code. When the
program is running there is no such distinction between "raw" and "normal"
strings. Here's a solution:

In [87]: print r'a\nb'
a\nb

In [88]: print r'a\nb'.decode( 'string-escape')
a
b

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

[Nagarajan]

Re: Raw strings to normal strings conversion?

On Aug 23, 2:42 pm, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_...@gmx.net wrote:

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:21:40 +0000, Nagarajan wrote:

On Aug 23, 1:21 pm, James Stroud <jstr...@mbi.uc la.eduwrote:

Nagarajan wrote:
Is there a way by which I could obtain normal string form of a raw
string.
XML CDATA is returned as raw string. But I need the string to actually
escape special chars.

>

Any idea?

>

This doesn't seem clear. Perhaps an example of what you get and what you
want it converted to.

>

Here is an example:

>rawstr = r'a\nb'
>print rawstr

a\nb

>

Now I need this newstr to actually interpret '\n', in other words, to
behave like a normal string.

>
So you get a string with Newlines as two character sequence \n. You don't
get "raw" strings. That is a concept in Python source code. When the
program is running there is no such distinction between "raw" and "normal"
strings. Here's a solution:
>
In [87]: print r'a\nb'
a\nb
>
In [88]: print r'a\nb'.decode( 'string-escape')
a
b
>
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch

Thanks a lot.