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I want to know how to use Python's str.replace() function (or similar) to replace Backslashes...

When i try to do it:

>>> temp = r"abc\abc"
>>> temp.replace(r'\'', 'backslash')
'abc\\abc' # For some reason, temp.replace() does not replace '\' with 'backslash' even when using raw variable
>>> temp.replace(r'\\', 'backslash') # Same result
'abc\\abc'

How do i fix this? And why? (Linux, Debian/Ubuntu, x86_x64 processor)

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You need to escape the backslash -

temp = r"abc\abc"
temp.replace('\\', 'backslash')
'abcbackslashabc'
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The important thing here is to not use r (raw string) for the single backslash, because r'\\' is a string with two backslashes. Yes, it's confusing.
I understand... \\ is like a shortcut or alias to \... and r'\\' is actually two backslashes

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