title: Replacing an escaped single quote with an escaped double quote in Python
body: <p>I'm trying to replace all single quotes with double quotes, but leave behind all escaped single quotes. Does anyone know a simple way to do this with python regexs? </p>
  
  <pre><code>Input:
  "{ 'name': 'Skrillex', 'Genre':'Dubstep', 'Bass': 'Heavy', 'thoughts': 'this\'s ahmazing'}"
  
  output:
  "{ "name": "Skrillex", "Genre": "Dubstep", "Bass": "Heavy", "thoughts": "this\'s ahmazing"}"
  </code></pre>