I need to remove backslash ('\') from string in Python.
str2 = str1.replace('\', '') isn`t working.
How can i do it?
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Barmar
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Egor Demeshko
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You need to escape the backslash to make it literal. – Barmar Aug 10 '21 at 10:18
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2`'\\'` is a string containing a single backslash. `'\'` is an incomplete literal, because the second `'` is _escaped_ by the backslash. – jonrsharpe Aug 10 '21 at 10:18
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This is due to \ being the escape sequence character in python so you have to do \\
str2 = str1.replace('\\', '')
Sean Powell
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There are 2 ways you can do that:
You have to escape the \:
str2 = str1.replace('\\', '')
or using raw strings:
str2 = str1.replace(r'\', '')
luigibertaco
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A raw string still can't end with an odd number of backslashes per https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-and-bytes-literals. – jonrsharpe Aug 10 '21 at 10:20
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Little tricky but it works
str2 = str1.replace("\ ".replace(" ", ""), "")
Rizquuula
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1Why would you want to replace a whole bunch of spaces when you can escape the backslash ```\\``` – Aug 10 '21 at 10:35
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It just replace the space in the `\ ` and not whole bunch of space in the input string. I am giving alternative ways to do it with more logical expression, that works. – Rizquuula Aug 10 '21 at 10:41