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Vintage
Vintage

Reputation: 238

Python Remove backslashes before a set of characters

How could I remove the backslash before a character in Python, such as ":" or "!"?

Edit: Let's say I got this line : "This is a line of text\!" . I want to get just "This is a line of text!", without the backslash.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2350

Answers (2)

philshem
philshem

Reputation: 25331

If you want to remove all backslashes, a simpler way is:

print "This is a line of text\!".replace('\\','')

Note that you have to escape the backslash, and that you may remove backslashes that are used to escape other characters.

Upvotes: 0

Mitul Shah
Mitul Shah

Reputation: 1566

You can use regex here:

>>> import re
>>> s = "This is a line of text\!, hello\: It\"s"
>>> re.sub(r'\\([!:])', r'\1', s)
'This is a line of text!, hello: It"s'

Upvotes: 3

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