Python Tip: Escaping Strings to C-style encodings

Wai Yip Tung contributed a useful snippet in the Python Cookbook for escaping non printable characters in python to C-style equivalents. It uses an undocumented part of the standard python library. Very neat.

>>> a="ABC\nDEF"
>>> print a.encode('string_escape')
ABC\nDEF
>>>

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4.28.07 / 11pm
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