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[chibaA at TinterlogD.Tcom]

Hi,

For some reason, this segment of code doesn't do what it's supposed to
do...  (it's supposed to take any \ " 's from inputString, and return
the same chacter preceeded with a \ to outputString).  It works great
for the ' and " characters, but it just won't do the \.  Any idea why?

def norm2mysqlinsert(inputString): # Used for insert and update in
MySQL
        outputString = ''
        p=re.compile('^[\\\'\"]$')

        count = 0
        for i in inputString:
                if p.match(inputString[count]):
                        outputString = outputString + "\\" +
inputString[count]
                else:
                        outputString = outputString +
inputString[count]
                count = count + 1

        return outputString