How do I escape backslash and single quote or double quote in Python?

Question

How do I escape a backslash and a single quote or double quote in Python?

For example:

Long string = \'\'\'some \'long\' string \\\' and \\\" some \'         


        

Answer 1

is this what you want?

import re
Long_string = "some long string \' and \" some escaped strings"
value_to_change = re.compile( "'|\"" )
modified = re.sub(value_to_change , 'thevalue' , Long_string )
print modified