How replace two double quotes with a \" in Python?

Asked Jun 06 '17 at 05:43

Active Jun 06 '17 at 05:56

Viewed 204 times

This is my string,

"Alexandra ""Alex"""

I am trying to replace two adjacent double quotes with a /" so the result is something like this.

"Alexandra \"Alex\""

After this, I will append this string to an array. This looks very trivial, and I am able to do this with replace.

a = '"Alexandra ""Alex"""' 
x = a.replace('""', "\\\"")
print x
# prints "Alexandra \"Alex\""
res = []
res.append(x)
print res
# prints ['"Alexandra \\"Alex\\""']

When appending to another array it's escaping the forward slash again.

How can I remove the extra forward slash?

edited Jun 06 '17 at 05:56

asked Jun 06 '17 at 05:43

Arman

2

That's just the way it formats printing the list. The string isn't modified when it is appended. Also, that's a backslash. – Alexander O'Mara Jun 06 '17 at 05:46
@AlexanderO'Mara So how can i replace the double quotes to /" then ? – Arman Jun 06 '17 at 05:50
@Ilja Everilä Can you remove the duplicate, the question is now more on how to replace the double quote with a /" – Arman Jun 06 '17 at 05:58

How replace two double quotes with a \" in Python?

0 Answers0