Escape double quotes for JSON in Python

Question

How can I replace double quotes with a backslash and double quotes in Python?

>>> s = \'my string with \"double quotes\" blablabla\'
>>>          


        

Answer 1

You should be using the json module. json.dumps(string). It can also serialize other python data types.

import json

>>> s = 'my string with "double quotes" blablabla'

>>> json.dumps(s)
<<< '"my string with \\"double quotes\\" blablabla"'