Replace all quotes in a string with escaped quotes?

Question

Given a string in python, such as:

s = \'This sentence has some \"quotes\" in it\\n\'

I want to create a new copy of that string with any q

Answer 1

Hi usually when working with Javascript I use the json module provided by Python. It will escape the string as well as a bunch of other things as user2357112 has pointed out.

import json
string = 'This sentence has some "quotes" in it\n'
json.dumps(string) #gives you '"This sentence has some \\"quotes\\" in it\\n"'