str.replace() when str contains \

[Dan Stromberg]

I believe you would do well to print a, before trying to transform it into
something else.

'\2' is chr(2).
'\a' is the bell character, and is unprintable.
'\_' is two characters though.

On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 2:12 PM Bernard LEDRU <python at bernardledru.be>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#string-methods
>
> str.replace(old, new[, count])¶
> Return a copy of the string with all occurrences of substring old
> replaced by new. If the optional argument count is given, only the first
> count occurrences are replaced.
>
> Attention when the string contains the escape character.
>
> Consider :
>
> >>> a="H:\2023"; print(a.replace("\\","/"))
> H:3
> >>> a="H:\a2023"; print(a.replace("\\","/"))
> H:2023
> >>> a="H:\_2023"; print(a.replace("\\","/"))
> H:/_2023
>
> Best regards,
> Bernard LEDRU
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