How to ignore the escaping \ python list?

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I want to ignore the escape character in the following code.

>>> a=['\%']
>>> print a
['\\%']

I want to output like ['\%']. Is there any way to do that?

Are you sure you understand what you're seeing here? In python, '\\%' == '\%' - both represent a backslash character followed by a percent character. — Eric
– Eric, Commented Dec 18, 2013 at 12:37

falsetru · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-18 12:20:20Z

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Using string_escape, unicode_escape encoding (See Python Specific Encodings):

>>> a = ['\%']
>>> print str(a).decode('string_escape')
['\%']
>>> print str(a).decode('unicode_escape')
['\%']

answered Dec 18, 2013 at 12:20

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martineau · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-18 15:48:24Z

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Couple of manual ways:

>>> a=['\%']
>>> print "['{}']".format(a[0])
['\%']
>>> print "['%s']" % a[0]
['\%']

Or more generally:

>>> a=['\%', '\+']
>>> print '[{}]'.format(', '.join("'{}'".format(i) for i in a))
['\%', '\+']
>>> print '[%s]' % ', '.join("'%s'" % i for i in a)
['\%', '\+']

edited Dec 18, 2013 at 15:48

answered Dec 18, 2013 at 15:29

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