RE: [Pythoncard-users] string encoding question for resourceEditor

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

> The problem I have is a generic Python problem that I need an answer to in
> order to finish the method. I'm adding string attributes like so:
>     dStr += "    '%s':'%s', \n" % (key, value)
> This doesn't escape the string, so if you have a single quote,
> newline, tab,
> etc. in the string then the output isn't going to be correct. I thought
> there was a general string escape method, but I'm not finding it. I can
> write my own to parse the string and put in \n \t \xhh for hex...
> but there
> has to be a routine that already does this for me in the standard
> libraries.
> Pointers please.

Doh. I shouldn't ever write documentation and code on the same day, writing
docs apparently makes me dumb.

repr() seems to do the job, though I didn't test all the special characters.

ka