representing a literal single slash

[dsavitsk]

"Jonathan Claggett" <hellen at claggetts.net> wrote in message
news:dd5454fb.0209141828.1ad24260 at posting.google.com...
> Here is an easy question (I'm hoping).
>
> I'm trying to process a string so that all doubled up backslashes (\\)
> are replaced with a single backslash (\).
>
> The obvious approach doesn't work since a single backslash can't end a
> string:
>
> str = str.replace('\\', '\') # broken

in the above you are replacing a single slash with, well, with nothing.  try
>>> str = str.replace('\\\\', '\\') # broken

-d