Removing backslashes from a string in Python [duplicate]
Your code is saying to replace each instance of '\' with result. Have you tried changing it to result.replace("\\", "") ?
Use decode('string_escape'), for example:
result = stringwithbackslashes.decode('string_escape')
string_escape : Produce a string that is suitable as string literal in Python source code
or just:
result.replace("\\", "")
result = result.replace("\\", "")
If you are interested in seeing the component words that are being separated by the '\' character, use:
result.replace('\\', ' ')