pandas dataframe query single quotes in string argument

Question

How to escape the single quotes character in the string I want to search for

ex.

strng= "King's palace"
df.query("fieldname == %s" %(strng))

This query is not returning data because of the quotes. Escaping is not helping.

Answer 1

What about using this solution.

# Test data    
df = pd.DataFrame({'fieldname': ['King\'s palace', 'Hilton']})

strng= "King's palace"
df.query("fieldname == @strng")

       fieldname
0  King's palace

Answer 2

I tried giving this as df.query(r'fieldname == %s' %(strng)) . It worked. Thanks Edchum.