how to replace back slash character with empty string in python

Question

I am trying replace a backslash '' in a string with the following code

string = "<P style='TEXT-INDENT'>B7 </P>"

result = string.replace("",'')

result:

------------------------------------------------------------
   File "<ipython console>", line 1
     result = string.replace("",'')
                                     ^
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal

Here i don't need the back slashes because actually i am parsing an xml file which has a tag in the above format, so if backslashes are there it is displaying invalid token during parsing

Can i know how to replace the backslashes with empty string in python

Answer 1

result = string.replace("","")