Python regex replacing \u2022

Question

This is my string:

raw_list = u\'Software Engineer with a huge passion for new and innovative products. Experienced gained from working in both big and fast-grow         


        

Answer 1

You're using a raw string, with the r. That tells Python to interpret the string literally, instead of actually taking escaped characters (such as \n).

>>> r'\u2022'
'\\u2022'

You can see it's actually a double backslash. Instead you want to use >>> u'\u2022' and then it will work.

Note that since you're doing a simple replacement you can just use the str.replace method:

x = raw_list.replace(u'\u2022', ' ')

You only need a regex replace for complicated pattern matching.