[Tutor] wierd replace problem

[Michael Powe]

Hello,

In your script, you need to escape each backslash, in order to have it
come out correctly to the interpreter.  IOW, in the shell, '\\' is
what is being processed.  But in your script, you want to send '\\' to
the shell, and in order to do that, you have to escape each backslash,
or '\\\\'.  

In a script, '\\' means 'send through a backslash' for shell
processing. The left-most backslash is escaping the one to its right. 

Thanks.

mp

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:19:23PM +0000, Roelof Wobben wrote:
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> I have this string called test with the contents of 'het is een wonder \\TIS'
> 
> Now I want to get rid of the \\ so I do this : test2 = test.replace ('\\', '')
> And I get at the python prompt this answer : 'het is een wonder TIS' 
> So that's right.
> 
> Now I try the same in a IDE with this programm :
>  
> woorden =[]
> letter_counts = {}
> file = open ('alice_in_wonderland.txt', 'r')
> for line in file:
>     line2 = line.replace ("\\","")
>     line3 = line2.lower()
>     woorden = line3.split()
>     for letter in woorden:
>         letter_counts[letter] = letter_counts.get (letter, 0) + 1
> letter_items = letter_counts.items()
> letter_items.sort()
> print letter_items 
>  
> But now Im gettting this output :
>  
> [('"\'tis', 1), 
>  
> Why does the \ stays here. It should have gone as the test in the python prompt says.
>  
> Roelof
> 
> 
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