Escape single quote in a string with back slash

Question

Hello I have a string like this

"'Ade', 'Danidee', 'Lamarr', 'O'Connor', 'Austino', 'N'golo',"

I need to be able to escape the single Quote character so the output will be like this

"'Ade', 'Danidee', 'Lamarr', 'O\'Connor', 'Austino', 'N\'golo',"

I have tried something like

Splitting the string with coma(,) in to a list

loop through it and checking if single quote is in each item

Then

item.replace("'", "\'")

Append it to a new list and join it with (,) again

Is there a way I can do it directly without going through all that?

I need to be able to do something like

str.replace("'", "\'")

But that will replace the whole single quotes

'Ade' will become Ade i don't want that

Thanks.

Another workaround could be using `"""` for your outer quotes, and `"` for the inner ones — clubby789, Aug 04 '19 at 12:50
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5658369/how-to-input-a-regex-in-string-replace — Jainil Patel, Aug 04 '19 at 12:53
Your input is broken. It would be better to fix whatever produces it. — Wodin, Aug 04 '19 at 15:21

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 04 '19 at 12:59

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import re
text = "'Ade', 'Danidee', 'Lamarr', 'O'Connor', 'Austino', 'N'golo',"
print( re.sub(r"(\w)'(\w)",r"\1\'\2",text) )

'Ade', 'Danidee', 'Lamarr', 'O\'Connor', 'Austino', 'N\'golo',

answered Aug 04 '19 at 12:59

Tammys Head

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This worked, thank you, what also worked is this `re.sub(r"\b\'\b", r"\\'", text)` – Sherluck08 Aug 04 '19 at 13:30

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 04 '19 at 13:17

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One way can be:

print("\"'Ade', 'Danidee', 'Lamarr', 'O\\'Connor', 'Austino', 'N\\'golo',\"")

answered Aug 04 '19 at 13:17

Arvind Raja

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Escape single quote in a string with back slash

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