re.sub not replacing all occurrences

Question

I\'m not a Python developer, but I\'m using a Python script to convert SQLite to MySQL

The suggested script gets close, but no cigar, as they say.

The line g

Answer 1

The two substitutions you'd want in your example overlap - the comma between your two instances of 't' will be matched by (.) in the first case, so ([^']) in the second case never gets a chance to match it. This slightly modified version might help:

line = re.sub(r"(?

This version uses lookahead and lookbehind syntax, described here.