brent saner via plug on 28 Jun 2023 11:33:51 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Help With Python String Replacement

On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 1:47 PM Casey Bralla via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
(SNIP)
I want to replace some double-slashes "\\" with single slashes "\".  I
also want to replace a slash-comma "\,"with a comma ","

But the python code is getting confused by the slashes as escape
characters.   Here's my code.

StringVariable.replace("\\","\")

StringVariable.replace("\,",",")

The easiest way is you need to "escape the escape".

.replace('\\\\', '\\')

But you can also do fun things like (ref):

.replace('\x5c\x5c', '\x5c')
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