python regex find all single qutoes inside single quotes

Question

can you help me with regex to find all single quotes inside single quotes?

IE

'sinead o'connor','don't don't','whatever'

Thanks for any advice.

Answer 1

Seems like your string was separted by comma.

re.sub(r"\b'\b", "''", s)

or

(?<=[^,])'(?!,|$)

DEMO

Example:

>>> import re
>>> s = "'sinead o'connor','don't don't','whatever'"
>>> re.sub(r"\b'\b", "''", s)
"'sinead o''connor','don''t don''t','whatever'"
>>> 

Answer 2

You can achieve this even without regex:

>>> string = "'sinead o'connor','don't don't','whatever'"
>>> string = string.replace("'", "''")
"''sinead o''connor'',''don''t don''t'',''whatever''"
>>> string.strip("'")
"sinead o''connor'',''don''t don''t'',''whatever"

Answer 3

Try this:

'[\w|\s]*([']*)[\w|\s]*'

Check this on regex101.com