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This is my string, 

"Alexandra ""Alex"""

I am trying to replace two adjacent double quotes with a /" so the result is something like this.

"Alexandra \"Alex\""

After this, I will append this string to an array. This looks very trivial, and I am able to do this with replace.

a = '"Alexandra ""Alex"""' x = a.replace('""', "\\\"") print x # prints "Alexandra \"Alex\"" res = [] res.append(x) print res # prints ['"Alexandra \\"Alex\\""']

When appending to another array it's escaping the forward slash again.

How can I remove the extra forward slash?

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    That's just the way it formats printing the list. The string isn't modified when it is appended. Also, that's a backslash. Commented Jun 6, 2017 at 5:46
  • @AlexanderO'Mara So how can i replace the double quotes to /" then ? Commented Jun 6, 2017 at 5:50
  • @Ilja Everilä Can you remove the duplicate, the question is now more on how to replace the double quote with a /" Commented Jun 6, 2017 at 5:58
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