How to replace single quotes within a string with quoted double quotes

Question

For example:

Input:

{'match_all':{}}

Output:

{'"match_all"':{}}

Is there some regex that can do this?

I know I could iterate through the string and whenever I encounter a key replace each side of it with '“ followed by “'; however, I was wondering if any of you knew a more pythonic way of doing this.

Answer 1

why not try using this method: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/string_replace.htm and try to replace, ' for '" and the second ' for "'...

str = "this is string example....wow!!! this is really string"
print str.replace("is", "was")
print str.replace("is", "was", 3)

the output returns:

thwas was string example....wow!!! thwas was really string

thwas was string example....wow!!! thwas is really string

print str.replace("'", "'"")
print str.replace("'", ""'", 1)

use ' " as needed to avoid errors...