How to print backslash with Python?

Question

When I write:

print '\' or print "\" or print "'\'"

Python doesn't print me the backslash \ symbol.

What should I do to get the expected result?

Answer 1

You can declare a string as raw (with and r in front of it) and it will print all its characters as-is:

>>> s = r'\abc\def' 

>>> print s 

'\abc\def'

This is useful for regular expressions.

To know more about this you can have a look at the following video tutorial:-