How to use pound sign as input instead of argument?

David

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Mar 12, 2011, 3:17:36 AM3/12/11

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I'll need to follow up later when I'm onsite with my computer, testing
it remotely has some delays so can't tell for sure, but doesn't look
like it's working so far.

Trying to automate SIP softphone with AutoItLibrary and RF. Want to
pass a # character as a test case argument, so that softphone can dial
# on keypad.

Problem is # character is used as code comment in Python and RF passes
that along from test cases to Python code.

How to properly escape the # to use it as test data? With backslash
like '\#'? Or single quote the # like '#'? Or try it as Python raw
strings format r'#'? Or set it as a Python variable instead of value
or variable in test case file, etc.?

David

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Mar 12, 2011, 3:19:12 AM3/12/11

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Oops made typo in thread title. Meant to say "comment" instead of
"argument".

Juha Rantanen

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Mar 14, 2011, 1:46:53 AM3/14/11

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2011/3/12 David <mang...@gmail.com>:

> Oops made typo in thread title. Meant to say "comment" instead of
> "argument".
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Hi,

Backslash is a escape character [1] so \# is the way to go.

[1] http://robotframework.googlecode.com/svn/tags/robotframework-2.5.6/doc/userguide/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#escaping