Replace backslash in String with Python 3.8

Question

I have looked up several methods to extract backslashes from a string in Python, but none of them workes for me. My String looks like the following:

s = "This is just a \ test \ string"

And i tried the following (because of several answers on stackoverflow):

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

But this does not work. I get the following output:

print(s)
>>> "This is just a \ test \ string"

Thank you!

You have to assign the result of the replacement to a variable like so: new_s = s.replace('\\', "") — Márcio Coelho, Dec 06 '19 at 14:22

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 06 '19 at 14:22

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This is because string.replace does not alter the string in-place. The following should work:

>>> s = "This is just a \ test \ string"
>>> s = s.replace('\\', "")
>>> s
'This is just a  test  string'

answered Dec 06 '19 at 14:22

CDJB

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