Re: backslashes get stripped from $ signs

On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 17:26:43 -0500
will kahn-greene <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 01/08/2011 04:56 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:46:48 +0100
> > Dieter Plaetinck <dieter-7FYLOmueu/[email protected]> wrote:
> >> +        var_dict['body'] = var_dict['body'].replace(r'\$', '\\\$')
> >>      replacer = Replacer(request, encoding, var_dict)
> >>      return _VAR_REGEXP.sub(replacer.replace, template)
> >>  
> >>
> >> this kind of works, except that for some reason i need 3
> >> backslashes in the replacement, and this will also change '$' into
> >> '\$', which i don't want, obviously. changing the first param to
> >> '\\$' doesn't help either.  I'm not sure what the 'r' is for, but
> >> I saw it in BlosxomRenderer:render_template(), and using it
> >> doesn't seem to change anything.
> > 
> > anyone an idea?  on a python commandline shell I can just do:
> > str.replace('\$', '\\$') 
> > but I have no idea why I can't get it to work in Pyblosxom/tools.py
> 
> The line you're doing on the python repl is different than the one
> you're doing in your patch.

I know... I can't get it to work with only two slashes, like I said
below the patch. (with two slashes it doesn't change anything, maybe
I'm just looking at the wrong part of the code)

Dieter

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