Is It Bug?

Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Date	2013-12-07 16:58 -0800
Message-ID	<5865401e-aef8-4dd2-927c-52d2b7ca3ed8@googlegroups.com> (permalink)
Subject	Is It Bug?
From	Mahan Marwat <mahanmarwat@gmail.com>

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Why this is not working.

>>> 'Hello, \\\\World'.replace('\\', '\\')

To me, Python will interpret '\\\\' to '\\'. And the replace method will replace '\\' with '\'. So, the result will be 'Hello, \World'. But it's give me 'Hello, \\\\World'.

The result I want form the code is 'Hello, \World'.

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Is It Bug? Mahan Marwat <mahanmarwat@gmail.com> - 2013-12-07 16:58 -0800
  Re: Is It Bug? Iuri <iurisilvio@gmail.com> - 2013-12-07 23:04 -0200
  Re: Is It Bug? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-12-07 21:48 -0800
  Re: Is It Bug? Joshua Gardner <mellowcellofellow@gmail.com> - 2013-12-07 23:39 -0700

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