Secrets are not found in Jupyter Notebooks

[mosc9575]

• I'm submitting a ...

  • bug report
  • feature request

• What is the current behavior?

If I open an new Jupyter Notebook (in JupyterLab 4.0.9) and write in the first cell

def my_very_secret_function(my_password = "bar"):
    pass

see secret is not found while using detect secrets as a pre-commit hook.

This is because the cell has the following form in the saved file.

  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": null,
   "id": "aa11ab85-ce4e-4803-92c9-0f48e2ce4c52",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "def my_very_secret_function(my_password = \"bar\"):\n",
    "    pass"
   ]
  }

As you can see there is a backslash \ before the quotation mark ". I think because of this no regular expressions matches the secret.

• What is the expected behavior?
  I expect that detect_secrets finds secrets in pure python and jupyter notebooks.
• Technical information

Detect secrets version : 1.4.0
Python version : 3.10.13 | packaged by conda-forge | (main, Oct 26 2023, 18:07:37) [GCC 12.3.0]
IPython version : 8.14.0
Tornado version : 6.3.3
Operating system : Linux-4.19.0-21-amd64-x86_64-with-glibc2.35
JupyterLab version : 4.0.9

[lorenzodb1]

Closing as duplicate of #780.