Python Escaping Sequences

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Index

1. Introduction
2. Common Escape Sequences in Python
3. Examples
4. Raw Strings

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Introduction

An escape sequence is a special character used in the form of backslash() followed by a character that is required. These characters are used to represent whitespace. Whitespace gives characters like space, tab, form-feed, and vertical tab.

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Common Escape Sequences in Python

Escape Sequence	Description
\\	Backslash (\)
\'	Single quote (')
\"	Double quote (")
\n	Newline
\t	Tab
\r	Carriage return
\b	Backspace
\f	Form feed
\ooo	Character with octal value ooo
\xhh	Character with hex value hh

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Examples

New line:

print("ciao\n mamma")
 
# Output: ciao
#         mamma

Backslash:

print("ciao\\ mamma")
 
# Output: ciao\ mamma

Space:

print("ciao\tmamma")
 
# Output: ciao mamma

Backspace:

print("ciao \bmamma")
 
# Output: ciaomamma

oss: remove’s the space between to words

Hexa value:

print("```
\x50\x59\x54\x48\x4f\x4E \x47\x55\x49\x44\x45\x53
```")
 
# Output: PYTHON GUIDES

oss: it’s used to convert hexa value into a string

Octal value:

print("```
\120\131\124\110\117\116 \107\125\111\104\105\123
```")
 
# Output: PYTHON GUIDeS

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Raw Strings

In Python, you can create raw strings by prefixing the string with the letter r or R. In raw strings, backslashes are treated as literal characters and not as escape characters in Python.

raw_string = r"This is a raw string\nThis will not be on a new line"
 
print(raw_string)
 

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