how to escape quotes in python – escape quotes from string
By Saruque Ahamed MollickIn this Python tutorial, we are going to show you how to escape quotes from a string in Python. This is really a great problem ( actually an irritating problem ) when you are having a quote in your string.
The reason is that a single quote or double quote itself is a special character we use in our Python program.
In many cases, it has been seen that you want to print a string or you want to work with a string. But the problem you face when there are one or more quotes in that string.
In Python programming when you run a program it starts checking the codes. Whenever quote is found the quote is treated as a special defined character. Thus it creates a problem for us.
Let us understand the problem and its solution with some easy examples.
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Escape quotes from a string in python
Look at the below string:
Hello, I don't like single quote at all
Now you have to print it out in Python. What will you do first if you don’t know about the problem with a single quote in a string?
The print syntax in python is:
print(' ')Put anything in that single quotes to print. You may also use double quotes.
Escape from single quote in a string in Python
If you use the below code:
print('hello I don't like single quote at all')The output will be:
print('hello I don't like single quote at all')
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntaxRun this code online
Because of that single quote, you will get an error like this.
don’t – here just because of this single quote we are getting an error. So we need to escape from this single quote.
Solutions:
- Put the string in between double quotes instead of single quotes.
- Put the escaping character before the single quote in the string.
You can use the first solution like this:
print("hello I don't like single quote at all")Output:
hello I don't like single quote at all Process finished with exit code 0
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Here is the Second solution:
In Python, the backslash is an escaping character.
So you can use it like the below:
print('hello I don\'t like single quote at all')Output:
hello I don't like single quote at all Process finished with exit code 0
Escape from double quote in a string in Python
Now suppose you have to print the below line:
She said, “You are looking nice”. And I smiled
You can do the below:
print("She said, \"You are looking nice\". And I smiled")Or you can also do this:
print('She said, "You are looking nice". And I smiled')The output for both of those will be same as below:
She said, "You are looking nice". And I smiled Process finished with exit code 0
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l = driver.find_element_by_xpath(“”//*[@id=\”onlineId1\”]”)
what happens if have double quotes i want to escape. i tried all that was recommended here and nothing works. I tried surrounding with ‘ single quote and i tried escape with \ key and surrounding entire string with double quotes. then i tried surrounding with single quotes and escape keys. nothing works. i am trying to navigate to webpage input box via xpath. the xpath location is above.
Use ‘ for the parameter inside that function. That should do the trick.
l = driver.find_element_by_xpath(‘//*[@id=”onlineId1”]’)
l = driver.find_element_by_xpath(“//*[@id=\”onlineId1\”]”)
what happens if have double quotes i want to escape. i tried all that was recommended here and nothing works. I tried surrounding with ‘ single quote and i tried escape with \ key and surrounding entire string with double quotes. then i tried surrounding with single quotes and escape keys. nothing works. i am trying to navigate to webpage input box via xpath. the xpath location is above.
revised sorry.
Wow. This is a lot of text just to say “use a backslash”!
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