title: Removing backslashes from string
body: <p>I answered a question earlier where the OP asked how he can remove backslashes from a string. This is how the backslashes looked like in the OP's string:</p>
  
  <pre><code>"I don\'t know why I don\'t have the right answer"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This was my answer:</p>
  
  <pre><code>a = "I don\'t know why I don\'t have the right answer"
  b = a.strip("/")
  print b
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This removed the backslashes from the string but my answer was down-voted and I received a comment that said "<em>there are so many things wrong with my answer that it's hard to count</em>" I totally believe that my answer is probably wrong but I would like to know why so I can learn from it. However, that question was deleted by the author so I couldn't reply to the comment there to ask this question.</p>