Question

I don’t know how to use the “replace” python string function to remove brackets.

i assume i’m doing something wrong here – i have this code:

line = line.replace('\(','A')

which, when faced with a string that has a ( in it doesn’t do anything. I’ve also tried

line = line.replace('\\(','A')

but no dice there either.

I know that the function works – (this is for converting sqlite data dump to mysql and seriously why hasn’t someone made a $10 app to do this? I would have bought it by now.) – because i can do

line = line.replace('CREATE','A')

and i get all the create statements replaced by the letter A…

What am i missing here?

Answer 1

Don’t escape it?

line = line.replace('(', 'A')

str.replace doesn’t use regular expressions. That’s what the re.sub function does.