Problem reading paths from file?

Question

Python

>>> str1 = "some\new\path\version1"
>>> myf = StringIO()
>>> myf.write(str1)
>>> myf.seek(0)
>>> print myf.getvalue()
some
ew\path
       ersion1

How to output a string in a normal form:
some\new\path\version1
I read the string str1 from another file, in which some paths are enumerated. That is, the "corrupted" string is already in the variable.
In other words, is there an analogue of this terrible crutch:

>>> print myf.getvalue().encode('string_escape').replace(r'\\', r'\\'[:-1]).replace(r'\x0b', r'\v')
some\new\path\version1

Answer 1

https://pythonworld.ru/tipy-dannyx-v-python/stroki...

Answer 2

Use repr(str1).