representing a literal single slash

[Jonathan Claggett]

"dsavitsk" <dsavitsk at e-coli.net> wrote in message 
> > > str = str.replace('\\', '\') # broken
> >
> > in the above you are replacing a single slash with, well, with nothing.
>  try
> > >>> str = str.replace('\\\\', '\\') # [not] broken
> >
> > -d
> 
> you might also want to rename that variable.  else the str() function will
> be a problem.

Thanks, that works. I knew it was an easy one :-)

BTW, my code now looks like this:

mystr = mystr.replace(r'\\', '\\') # replace two slashes with on