Escape for str in Python

Question

Wow, this should be so simple, but it\' just not working. I need to inset a \"\\\" into a string (for a Bash command), but escaping just doesn\'t work.

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Answer 1

If you want double slashes because the shell will escape \ again, use a raw string:

b = a[:3] + r'\\' + a[3:]