Question

I have the following two vars:

a = chr(92) + 'x11'
b = '\x11'
print 'a is: ' + a
print 'b is: ' + b

The result of these print statemtents:

a is: \x11
b is: <|        # Here I am just showing a representation of the symbol that is printed for b

How can I make it so that variable a prints the same thing as var b using the chr(92) call? Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

The other answers are showing you how to make b give you what you get in a. If you want a to give you what you get in b (which is what you’re asking, if I read you correctly), you need to decode the escape sequence:

>>> a
u'\\x11'
>>> a.decode('string-escape')
'\x11'

You can also use unicode-escape instead of string-escape if you want a unicode string as the result.