Python string replace containing “”

I would like to convert a string temp.filename.txt to temp.filename.txt using python

Tried string replace method but the output is not as expected

filename = "temp.filename.txt"
filename.replace(".", ".")
output: 'temp\.filename\.txt'

Answer

is a special character, which is represented as \, this doesn’t mean your string actually contains 2 characters.

(as suggested by @saipy, if you print your string, only single should show up…)