string replace for back slash

[S.Selvam Siva]

Hi all,

I tried to do a string replace as follows,

>>> s="hi & people"
>>> s.replace("&","\&")
'hi \\& people'
>>>

but i was expecting 'hi \& people'.I dont know ,what is something different
here with escape sequence.

-- 
Yours,
S.Selvam
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