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dorado
dorado

Reputation: 1525

Argparse input with spaces and escape characters

The following is my python script

import argparse
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('query', nargs='*')
args = parser.parse_args() 
print args.query

If I rum this with an argument like:

python script.py use of \n

It gives me the following output:

['use', 'of', 'n']

whereas I would like to have

['use', 'of', '\\n']

and so on.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2097

Answers (1)

AlokThakur
AlokThakur

Reputation: 3741

You should be getting this behavior on linux where '\' is shell escape character. It is used to continue a long command in next line. So you can write a long command in multi line by using '\' character. When you run 

python script.py use of \n

shell take '\n' as two char '\' a escape char and 'n', Solution should be 

python script.py use of \\n

or 

python script.py use of '\n'

Upvotes: 1

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