Newbie question: non-escaping backslashes before placeholders

Hi,

I'm new to Cheetah, and new to this list,

I've got a question that I'm sure must have been asked before, but I
can't find the answer in the documentation so I'm hoping somebody can
help.

I'm using Cheetah 2.2.1 / Python 2.5 under Windows to create some
config files and I'm having problems creating windows paths.

There's a cut-down example below.

from Cheetah.Template import Template
t = Template('#config_file    "c:\$p1\$p2"')
t.p1 = 'foo'
t.p2 = 'bar'
print t

This outputs the following:
    #config_file    "c:$p1$p2"

What I really want is
    #config_file    "c:\foo\bar"

I can't figure out how to prevent the backslashes from escaping the
following placeholder. I'm sure there's a simple answer.

Thanks in advance.

Jon Mills
[email protected]

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