John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What you want is:
>
>>> import re
>>> text = r'frob this " avoid this \", OK?'
>>>> text
> 'frob this " avoid this \\", OK?'
>>> re.sub(r'(?<!\\)"', r'\"', text)
> frob this \\" avoid this \\", OK?'
>>>
>
Or you can do it without using regular expressions at all. Just replace
them all and then fix up the result:
>>> text = r'frob this " avoid this \", OK?'
>>> text.replace('"', r'\"').replace(r'\\"', r'\"')
'frob this \\" avoid this \\", OK?'
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