How to remove backslashes in strings in python

Question

As an output of Pytesseract, I get a string variable which contains backslashes. I would like to remove all of the back slashes.

'13, 0\\\\'70'

Unforturnately the replace function does not work as the string doesn't seem to be an actual string when the variable value is copied. Anybody knows how I can remove all the backslashes?

Answer 1

I replaced your outermost quotation marks with double-quotes, and then properly applied `replace:

>>> brut_mass = "13, 0\\'70"
>>> brut_mass.replace('\\', '')
"13, 0'70"

Does that solve your problem?

Answer 2

Fixed it with the code below.

brut_mass = repr(brut_mass).replace(" ' ", '')

or alternatively to avoid the double quotations

brut_mass = brut_mass.replace(" ' ", '')