On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Spencer Parker <inthefri...@gmail.com> wrote: > In these files I also have some special characters I need to remove, but I > cannot figure out how to specify this. > I need to remove a vertical tab and a formfeed character. How would I > specify to remove these characters? I have tried \v and \f >
As was noted, raw_input doesn't want escaping done on its input, it just takes it as is. Escaping is something done only for representation purposes. If you want your script to replace a vertical tab, you'll need to enter a vertical tab character into your console. To be fair, it's not immediately obvious how to do that. I must confess I have no idea how you would do that on windows[1] Alternatively, you could change your script so that you can, for example, enter the corresponding ASCII code as input (the chr function can convert ascii codes to their corresponding character). Hugo [1] had you been using linux I would have suggested: $ echo -e '\v' | xclip -i -selection c Then just paste as input. It's not exactly convenient, but does solve the problem. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
