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#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8
"""Utilities to deal with text escaping."""
def unescape(text):
"""Removes '\\' escaping from 'text'."""
rv = ""
i = 0
while i < len(text):
if i+1 < len(text) and text[i] == '\\':
rv += text[i+1]
i += 1
else:
rv += text[i]
i += 1
return rv
def fill_in_whitespace(text):
"""Returns 'text' with escaped whitespace replaced through whitespaces."""
text = text.replace(r"\n", "\n")
text = text.replace(r"\t", "\t")
text = text.replace(r"\r", "\r")
text = text.replace(r"\a", "\a")
text = text.replace(r"\b", "\b")
return text