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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:04:48 +0000
Subject: Re: Performing a number of substitutions on a unicode string
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On 20 December 2011 15:35, Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> wrote:

>>>> escape_map =3D {
> ... =C2=A0 =C2=A0 u'\n': u'\\n',
> ... =C2=A0 =C2=A0 u'\t': u'\\t',
> ... =C2=A0 =C2=A0 u'\r': u'\\r',
> ... =C2=A0 =C2=A0 u'\f': u'\\f',
> ... =C2=A0 =C2=A0 u'\\': u'\\\\'
> ... }
>>>> escape_map =3D dict((ord(k), v) for k, v in escape_map.items())
>>>> print u"the quick\n brown\tfox
> jumps\\over\\the\\lazy\\dog".translate(escape_map)
> the quick\n brown\tfox jumps\\over\\the\\lazy\\dog

Thanks.  I think I've got a blind spot about unicode.translate.
Actually, I know why: it's not properly documented where I look [1].

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Arnaud

[1] http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#str.translate