Use Python to replace forward slashes in string to backslashes

Question

Using Python 3.7, I have a string s defined as s = '//10.0.0.3/research'. I need some operator on s to produce '\\\10.0.0.3\research' as the output.

I understand about backslashes being escape characters, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what the proper s.replace() statement would look like to produce what I want (I need the backslashes because that's what the DOS 'net use' command needs to see when assigning UNC paths to drive letters). Ideas?

Answer 1

don't forget to assign it back to s:

s = '//10.0.0.3/research'

s = '\\' + s.replace("/", "\\")
print(s)

outputs:

\\10.0.0.3\research

Answer 2

Two backslashes mean a literal backslash:

s.replace("/", "\\")