From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 00:45:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remote-hg: unquote C-style paths when exporting
Message-ID: <CAMP44s37-R0u4oLnuRfdghx-Tk3X9eer0MVTcAGmPZ3Bu32dug@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALWbr2zsOYNN45d+qHDQ88eLj82iV4QxJ_9ro+RGk7upBJVATA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com> wrote:

> It is true that I have expected "valid output" from git-fast-export.
> And I don't have in mind any easy solution to detect that the output
> is broken, yet still accepted as a valid string by python. We could
> obviously write a unquote_c_style() equivalent in python if needed.

Something like this?

def c_style_unescape(string):
    if string[0] == string[-1] == '"':
        return string.decode('string-escape')[1:-1]
    return string

It's in git-remote-bzr.py.

-- 
Felipe Contreras