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How to refer to “\” sign in python string

I’ve quite large string data in which I’ve to remove all characters other than A-Z,a-z and 0-9
I’m able to remove almost every character but ‘\’ is a problem.

every other character is removed but ‘\’ is making problem

def replace_all(text, dic):
    for i, j in dic.iteritems():
        text = text.replace(i, j)
    return text

reps = {' ':'-','.':'-','"':'-',',':'-','/':'-',
        '<':'-',';':'-',':':'-','*':'-','+':'-',
        '=':'-','_':'-','?':'-','%':'-','!':'-',
        '$':'-','(':'-',')':'-','\#':'-','[':'-',
        ']':'-','\&':'-','@':'-','\W':'-','\t':'-'}

x.name = x.name.lower()

x1 = replace_all(x.name,reps)

Answer 1

If you have a string:

a = 'hi how \\are you'

you can remove it by doing:

a.replace('\\','')

>'hi how are you'

If you have a specific context where you are having trouble, I recommend posting a bit more detail.