Print raw string from variable not getting the answers

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I m trying to find a way to print a string in raw form from a variable  For instance  if I add an environment variable to Windows for a path  which might look like  C   Windows Users alexb    I know I can do   print r C   Windows Users alexb      But I cant put an r in front of a variable     for instance   test    C   Windows Users alexb   print rtest    Clearly would just try to print rtest   I also know there s  test    C   Windows Users alexb   print repr test     But this returns  C   Windows  Users x07lexb  as does  test    C   Windows Users alexb   print test encode  string-escape      So I m wondering if there s any elegant way to make a variable holding that path print RAW  still using test  It would be nice if it was just  print raw test     But its not

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try this  Based on what type of output you want  sometime you may not need single quote around printed string  test    quot qweqwe n1212as t121  2asas quot  print repr test     output   qweqwe n1212as t121  2asas  print  repr test  strip  quot   quot       output  qweqwe n1212as t121  2asas

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You can t turn an existing string  raw   The r prefix on literals is understood by the parser  it tells it to ignore escape sequences in the string  However  once a string literal has been parsed  there s no difference between a raw string and a  regular  one  If you have a string that contains a newline  for instance  there s no way to tell at runtime whether that newline came from the escape sequence  n  from a literal newline in a triple-quoted string  perhaps even a raw one    from calling chr 10   by reading it from a file  or whatever else you might be able to come up with  The actual string object constructed from any of those methods looks the same

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In general  to make a raw string out of a string variable  I use this   string    C   Windows Users alexb   raw string   r     format string    output    C     Windows  Users  alexb

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I know i m too late for the answer but for people reading this I found a much easier way for doing it  myVariable    This string is supposed to be raw    print r  s   myVariable

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I have my variable assigned to big complex pattern string for using with re module and it is concatenated with few other strings and in the end I want to print it then copy and check on regex101 com  But when I print it in the interactive mode I get double slash -    w  as  Jimmynoarms said   The Solution for python 3x   print r  s    your variable pattern str

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i wrote a small function   but works for me   def conv strng       k strng     k k replace   a     a       k k replace   b     b       k k replace   f     f       k k replace   n     n       k k replace   r     r       k k replace   t     t       k k replace   v     v       return k

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Your particular string won t work as typed because of the escape characters at the end     won t allow it to close on the quotation   Maybe I m just wrong on that one because I m still very new to python so if so please correct me but  changing it slightly to adjust for that  the repr   function will do the job of reproducing any string stored in a variable as a raw string   You can do it two ways    gt  gt  gt print  C   Windows Users alexb      C  Windows Users alexb    gt  gt  gt print r C   Windows Users alexb     C   Windows Users alexb     Store it in a variable   test    C   Windows Users alexb      Use repr      gt  gt  gt print repr test    C   Windows Users alexb      or string replacement with  r     print   r   test   C   Windows Users alexb      The string will be reproduced with single quotes though so you would need to strip those off afterwards

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I had a similar problem and stumbled upon this question  and know thanks to Nick Olson-Harris  answer that the solution lies with changing the string    Two ways of solving it    Get the path you want using native python functions  e g    test   os getcwd     In case the path in question is your current directory print repr test     This makes it platform independent and it now works with  encode  If this is an option for you  it s the more elegant solution   If your string is not a path  define it in a way compatible with python strings  in this case by escaping your backslashes   test    C   Windows  Users  alexb    print repr test

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Replace back-slash with forward-slash using one of the below    re sub r          x  re sub r          x

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Just simply use r string   Hope this will help you as I see you haven t got your expected answer yet       test    C   Windows Users alexb       rawtest   r  s   test

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Get rid of the escape characters before storing or manipulating the raw string     You could change any backslashes of the path     to forward slashes     before storing them in a variable  The forward slashes don t need to be escaped      gt  gt  gt  mypath   os getcwd   replace              gt  gt  gt  os path exists mypath    True    gt  gt  gt

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