Octal escapes

Encode a string as three-digit octal escapes

Each byte is converted to a backslash followed by three octal digits:

value = "test"
octal_value = ""
for byte in value.encode():
    octal_value += f"\\{byte:03o}"

\164\145\163\164

.encode() converts the string to bytes. Iterating over the result provides each byte as an integer. The o format converts that integer to octal, while 03 pads it to three digits. The doubled backslash produces one literal backslash in octal_value.

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