Shopify API helper

shopify_helper.py

def prepare_for_api(str_json):
    """
    Prepare a json string API use by escaping double quotes and removing \n new line breaks
    :param str_json: string
    :return: string
    Note: Use pattern is to wrap data at the last possible moment to avoid extra escaping.
    """
    str_json = re.sub(' +', ' ', str_json)  # kills multi whitespace
    str_json = str_json.replace('\n', '')  # kill new line breaks caused by triple quoted raw strings
    str_json = str_json.replace('"', '\\"')  # address double quotes
    # Should be json ready. If not, add more.
    return str_json