From e13d3d69438aa318a0d5371cf46af8cbd8cc39ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Vega <jamessan@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:03:35 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Decode/encode as 'string_escape' when (de)serializing the
 registry.

Signed-off-by: James Vega <jamessan@users.sourceforge.net>
---
 src/callbacks.py |  2 +-
 src/registry.py  | 11 ++++++-----
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/callbacks.py b/src/callbacks.py
index 1e6ff556b..d12f1ea5a 100644
--- a/src/callbacks.py
+++ b/src/callbacks.py
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ class Tokenizer(object):
     def _handleToken(self, token):
         if token[0] == token[-1] and token[0] in self.quotes:
             token = token[1:-1]
-            token = token.decode('string-escape')
+            token = token.decode('string_escape')
         return token
 
     def _insideBrackets(self, lexer):
diff --git a/src/registry.py b/src/registry.py
index 63dab3e9a..afaf876fe 100644
--- a/src/registry.py
+++ b/src/registry.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 ###
 # Copyright (c) 2004-2005, Jeremiah Fincher
+# Copyright (c) 2009-2010, James Vega
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
@@ -87,7 +88,7 @@ def open(filename, clear=False):
         try:
             (key, value) = re.split(r'(?<!\\):', acc, 1)
             key = key.strip()
-            value = value.strip().replace('\\\\', '\\')
+            value = value.strip().decode('string_escape')
             acc = ''
         except ValueError:
             raise InvalidRegistryFile, 'Error unpacking line %r' % acc
@@ -143,7 +144,7 @@ def isValidRegistryName(name):
     return len(name.split()) == 1 and not name.startswith('_')
 
 def escape(name):
-    name = name.replace('\\', '\\\\')
+    name = name.encode('string_escape')
     name = name.replace(':', '\\:')
     name = name.replace('.', '\\.')
     return name
@@ -151,7 +152,7 @@ def escape(name):
 def unescape(name):
     name = name.replace('\\.', '.')
     name = name.replace('\\:', ':')
-    name = name.replace('\\\\', '\\')
+    name = name.decode('string_escape')
     return name
 
 _splitRe = re.compile(r'(?<!\\)\.')
@@ -345,7 +346,7 @@ class Value(Group):
         return repr(self())
 
     def serialize(self):
-        return str(self).replace('\\', '\\\\')
+        return str(self).encode('string_escape')
 
     # We tried many, *many* different syntactic methods here, and this one was
     # simply the best -- not very intrusive, easily overridden by subclasses,
@@ -501,7 +502,7 @@ class NormalizedString(String):
         self.__parent.setValue(s)
 
     def serialize(self):
-        s = str(self).replace('\\', '\\\\')
+        s = self.__parent.serialize()
         prefixLen = len(self._name) + 2
         lines = textwrap.wrap(s, width=76-prefixLen)
         last = len(lines)-1