David López Luengo wrote:
Hi everybody there!, here's a quick question.
I'm getting the text from an entry:
<gtk.Entry-instance>.get_text()
Which actually has 'text text \xff text text'. This strings is
returned "as is", this mean, with each character, including \ and x
and f and f, all I want to do is just get the same string BUT with the
scaped character "\xff" as just one byte, I have read
Well, for a start, you could use Python's built-in string-escape codec.
So bytes = entry.get_text().decode('string_escape')
http://docs.python.org/release/2.6/library/codecs.html
This decodes per Python string escaping rules, which is similar to C,
but not exactly the same (maybe it is just the quote chars):
http://docs.python.org/release/2.6/reference/lexical_analysis.html#id7
If these rules don't meet your specifications precisely, I believe
you'll have to write your own little decoding routine. I assume someone
has done this, somebody might have even done it well.
I would add the term "escape" or "escaping" to your search queries.
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