topic Calculate Field with Quotation marks &amp;quot; in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/calculate-field-with-quotation-marks-amp-quot/m-p/106209#M8197 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I need to do a find and replace in text fields that contain double quotes ("). I'm field calculating the text fields into fields with a smaller field length because the original fields have a field length of 214 million (LA County Assessors DS04). Unfortunately, when scripting the </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>arcpy.CalculateField_management(dso4,newField,!newField!.replace(""","'"),'PYTHON') </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>doesn't work because it reads it as a triple string literal.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I even tried using the \ character to ignore the "</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>"!Legal_Description_Line1!.replace(\"\"\",\"\'\")"</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>error returns: EOF while scanning triple-quoted string literal (&lt;string&gt;, line 1)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is it even possible to field calculate string fields that contain double quotation marks (")?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:40:14 GMT ChadMarch1 2012-10-29T14:40:14Z Calculate Field with Quotation marks &quot; https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/calculate-field-with-quotation-marks-amp-quot/m-p/106209#M8197 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I need to do a find and replace in text fields that contain double quotes ("). I'm field calculating the text fields into fields with a smaller field length because the original fields have a field length of 214 million (LA County Assessors DS04). Unfortunately, when scripting the </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>arcpy.CalculateField_management(dso4,newField,!newField!.replace(""","'"),'PYTHON') </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>doesn't work because it reads it as a triple string literal.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I even tried using the \ character to ignore the "</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>"!Legal_Description_Line1!.replace(\"\"\",\"\'\")"</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>error returns: EOF while scanning triple-quoted string literal (&lt;string&gt;, line 1)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is it even possible to field calculate string fields that contain double quotation marks (")?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:40:14 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/calculate-field-with-quotation-marks-amp-quot/m-p/106209#M8197 ChadMarch1 2012-10-29T14:40:14Z