What is escape sequence in python?

Question

Can anyone tell me what is escape sequence in python?

Answer 1

In Python strings, the escape character is a special character which is denoted as "\". It is used for creating certain whitespace characters like:

• "\t" is a tab
• "\n" is a new line
• "\r" is a carriage return.

Here is an example:

>>> print 'apple\torange'

apple     orange

>>> print 'apple\norange'

apple

orange

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