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mealesbia
mealesbia

Reputation: 935

how to replace string with same string without quotes

I've some JSON data:

data = '''
{
  "test": "{{{test}}}"
}
'''

Now I want to replace "{{{test}}}" with {{{test}}} (so without quotes). Hardcoded it works:

new = data.replace("\"{{{test}}}\"", "{{{test}}}")
print(new)

output:

{
    "test": {{{test}}}
}

But I need to import the 'test' as variable in the command so I tried:

variable = "test"
new = data.replace("\"{{{%s}}}\"", "{{{%s}}}" % variable)
print(new)

But then I got the quotes again:

{
    "test": "{{{test}}}"
}

What am I doing wrong and how can I make this work?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 232

Answers (1)

robbrit
robbrit

Reputation: 17960

Your issue is here:

new = data.replace("\"{{{%s}}}\"", "{{{%s}}}" % variable)

You're only doing the string substitution on the second value.

Here's a way that might be cleaner:

substitution = "{{{%s}}}" % variable
new = data.replace('"%s"' % substitution, substitution)

That being said if you're doing extensive string munging like this, you may want to look into a templating library like Jinja or a compile-to-JSON language like Jsonnet. I personally prefer Jsonnet, but to each their own.

Upvotes: 1

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