Karim wrote: > That is not the thing I want. I want to escape any " which are not > already escaped. > The sed regex '/\([^\\]\)\?"/\1\\"/g' is exactly what I need (I have > made regex on unix since 15 years).
Can the backslash be escaped, too? If so I don't think your regex does what you think it does. r'\\\"' # escaped \ followed by escaped " should not be altered, but: $ echo '\\\"' | sed 's/\([^\\]\)\?"/\1\\"/g' \\\\" # two escaped \ folloed by a " that is not escaped _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
