java 单引号 替换_用双引号替换所有连续的单引号对(Replace all consecutive single quote pairs with double quotes)...

I am trying replace all consecutive single quote pairs with double quotes.

Code:

text.replace('\'\'','\"')

But this doesn't seem to work.

Background: I am extracting article text from stored .html files using Goose.

article = extractor.extract(raw_html=html) #extracts content

text = (unidecode(article.cleaned_text)) #changes encoding

Here article is in unicode and text in str. I am using Python 2. I try to print the text.

print text

Output:

''Several people were crushed or trampled to death,'' the police said in a statement.

instead of

\'\'Several people were crushed or trampled to death,\'\' the police said in a statement.

This is somewhat confusing to me. My code would work if it was in the second format. I don't understand how the string is stored even given the quotes are not preceeded by \.