How to replace single quotes (') with \' in python?
Need to convert from
"{'fr': '', 'en': 'Title Edit 02'}"
to
"{\'fr\': \'\', \'en\': \'Changed\'}"
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Thirumal
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1The first example is not a valid Python expression - can you provide a working code example that has the actual value you want to modify? – Grismar Aug 25 '21 at 07:16
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it's a `dict`, converted to `str` to store in the database. – Thirumal Aug 25 '21 at 07:17
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why do you need so? – Epsi95 Aug 25 '21 at 07:17
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Gremlin is not accepting, single quotes. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44483185/how-to-escape-quotes-in-gremlin-queries – Thirumal Aug 25 '21 at 07:18
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2Are you sure you aren't looking for JSON? The chance that some database expects a manually adjusted Python `str` representation are tiny. – MisterMiyagi Aug 25 '21 at 07:22
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1Why does the value of en change as well in the expected output? – MisterMiyagi Aug 25 '21 at 07:26
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apache-tinkerpop gremlin " Submitting script" should be in `str`. – Thirumal Aug 25 '21 at 07:28
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Try the following code:
s = "{'fr': '', 'en': 'Title Edit 02'}"
s= s.replace("'","\\'").strip("\\'")
print(s) # Or Do What you need with s
Output: {\'fr\': \'\', \'en\': \'Title Edit 02\'}
Explanation: Replace all ' with '. strip() can be omitted, just a fail safe.
Sayok Majumder
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Talk is cheap. Show you the code
str = "{'fr': '', 'en': 'Title Edit 02'}"
str1 = str.replace("\'", "\\\'")
print(str1)
OUT
"{\'fr\': \'\', \'en\': \'Title Edit 02\'}"
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