>for the resulting file to be written as sampled above. I can use a
>sed script to do this. sample:
>
>s/\\n/\\\\n/g
>
>This will work, but I want to use python. Now I have tried the following:
>
>regsub.gsub('\n','\\n',<var>)
>
>Will this even work? I have even tried to double and tripple the "\" but
>it does not seem to work. Any ideas?
You will need to quadruple the back-slash. See tokenize.py. The
following will work:
regsub.gsub('\n','\\\\n',<var>)
Good luck,
-Jaap-
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