[solved]Escape characters python

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Hello everyone,

I have a question, i want to add music to my playlist after it finishes download, which i do using:

import os
number='name of the song'
os.system('mpc add ' + number)

There is a small issue, the following characters need to be escaped:

&
'
(white)space
(
)

surprisingly, [] do not need to be escaped. and by escaping i mean inserting a backslash in from of it, so & should become \&, now i could make a whole of regex expressions:

import re
number=re.sub(r'\s+','\\ ',number) # will insert backslash for spaces
number=re.sub(r'([()])', r'\\\1',number) # will insert backslash for spaces

which is the best way to achieve this? A regex expression? Not that good with regex yet, any help would be appreciated, thanks guys :slight_smile:

This is outside of codecademy, i run python 3.5.1 on arch linux, mpc is a program to control mpd (music player deamon)

If you think there is a better way then regex, that is good too :slight_smile:

2

It seem i can do this in bash:

mpc add "name_of_song"

then it ignores any special characters, now if i could do this in python… Would be brilliant, anyone an idea?

3

Seems i found the solution:

os.system('mpc add ' + '"' + number + '"')