= 2*len(q) s = s[len(q):-len(q)] return re.sub(r"\\(\'|\"|\\|[abfnrtv]|x.{0,2}|[0-7]{1,3})", escape, s) def test(): for i in range(256): c = chr(i) s = repr(c) e = evalString(s) if e != c: print i, c, s, e if __name__ == "__main__": test()