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Re: Is It Bug?

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This way, it will replace '\' with '\', so nothing change.

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


On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Mahan Marwat <mahanmarwat@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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