grok quoted strings in a select places in the em

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/examples/data/plugins/config.py b/examples/data/plugins/config.py
index ed2d761..dde4ae1 100644
--- a/examples/data/plugins/config.py
+++ b/examples/data/plugins/config.py
@@ -2,8 +2,16 @@ from re import compile
 from types import BooleanType
 from UserDict import DictMixin
 
+_unquote = compile("'(.*?)'|\"(.*?)\"")
+def unquote(s):
+    m = _unquote.match(s)
+    if m is not None:
+        return unicode(m.group(1)).decode('string_escape')
+    return unicode(s).decode('string_escape')
+
+
 valid_key = compile('^[A-Za-z0-9_\.]+$').match
-types = {'int': int, 'float': float, 'str': unicode}
+types = {'int': int, 'float': float, 'str': unquote}
 escape = lambda s: unicode(s).replace('\n', '\\n')
 
 class Config(DictMixin):