'\' wont close quotes

Question

I am attempting to parse through a string to look for all slashes in the string but cannot close out the parenthesis.

    for i in string:
          if i == '\':
                do_something

It wants to treat the \' as one character. Is there a way to nullify that?

If you want the `\ ` character, double it up. If you want the `'` character, double *that* up. — Mark Ransom, May 20 '16 at 13:29

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered May 20 '16 at 13:29

8

You need to escape the backslash character with another backslash.

for i in string:
      if i == '\\':
            do_something

answered May 20 '16 at 13:29

Frank Bryce

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