Translating Perl to Python

Question

I found this Perl script while migrating my SQLite database to mysql

I was wondering (since I don\'t know Perl) how could one rewrite this in Python?

Bonus point

Answer 1

Shortest? The tilde signifies a regex in perl. "import re" and go from there. The only key differences are that you'll be using \1 and \2 instead of $1 and $2 when you assign values, and you'll be using %s for when you're replacing regexp matches inside strings.