[Tutor] wierd replace problem

[Alan Gauld]

"Steven D'Aprano" <steve at pearwood.info> wrote 

>> OK,. Thats replacing a double slash in the data
> 
> Er, surely not... I think you've confused backslashes and forward 
> slashes. Or something. '\\' is a single backslash, not a double, 
> because the first backslash is the escape character.
> 
> A double backslash can be written '\\\\'.

Erk, you are right of course, he would need to use a raw string 
to do it with a literal double slash. Silly me.

However, based on his post I still think his issue may be one 
of represention not content.

Alan G.