Pretty much as question states- I have a code that finds sentences in a big string using regex- findall(). It then uses this sentence later, however when it uses it it puts a backslash infront of any apostrophe, for example Today's becomes Today\'s. Why is this happening, and how can I stop this happening?
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Bhargav Rao
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Include relevant demonstration / sscce code and output. – user2864740 Mar 14 '15 at 18:42
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It's called escaping a string. When you use " or ' inside of a string use \ to avoid lexical syntax errors. I believe there is a method that removes the escape character from a string if that's what you'd like to do.
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The backslash denotes a so called escape sequence, which basically tells python that this character has to be interpreted differently from a "normal" ' character (which would signal the beginning or end of a string for the interpreter).
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