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python-3.xreplacefilepathbackslash
Nemo XXX
Nemo XXX

Reputation: 681

Replace two backslashes with a single backslash

I want to replace a string with two backslashes with single backslashes. However replace doesn't seem to accept '\\' as the replacement string. Here's the interpreter output:

>>> import tempfile
>>> temp_folder = tempfile.gettempdir()
>>> temp_folder
'C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Local\\Temp'
>>> temp_folder.replace('\\\\', '\\')
'C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Local\\Temp'

BTW, I know that Windows paths need to contain either double backslashes or a single forward slashes. I want to replace them anyway for display purposes.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1761

Answers (2)

user17609621
user17609621

Reputation: 1

This works for me

text = input('insert text')
list = text.split('\\')
print(list)
text2 = ''
for items in list:
    if items != '':
        text += items + '\\'
print(text2)

Upvotes: 0

Anthon
Anthon

Reputation: 76588

Your output doesn't have double backslashes. What you are looking at is the repr() value of the string and that displays with escaped backslashes. Assuming your temp_folder would have double backslashes, you should instead use:

print(temp_folder.replace('\\\\', '\\'))

and that will show you:

C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp

which also drops the quotes.

But your temp_folder is unlikely to have double backslashes and this difference in display probably got you thinking that there are double backslashes in the return value from tempfile.gettempdir(). As @Jean-Francois indicated, there should not be (at least not on Windows). So you don't need to use the .replace(), just print:

print(temp_folder)

Upvotes: 3

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