Python - Things to know before proceed - Escape Characters/Special Characters Tutorial

​The characters which have some unique functionality, such characters are called special character/escape characters. Escape characters are backslash '\' followed by the character you want to insert.

A list of the escape characters are-

• \n - Newline
• \t - Horizontal Tab with 4 spaces
• \v - Vertical Tab
• \' - Single Quotes
• \" - Double Quotes
• \r - Carriage Return
• \\ - Backslash
• \b - Backspace
• \f - Form Feed
• \N - N is number for unicode character
• \NNN - NNN is digits for Octal value
• \xNN - NN is a hex value; \x is used to denote following is a hex value.
• \a - bell sound, actually default chime

Example-

print("New\nLine")
print("Horizontal\tTab\twith\t4\tspaces")
print("Vertical\vTab")
print("Single Quotes\'s")
print("Double Quotes\"s")
print("Carriage\rReturn")
print("Backslash- \\")
print("Back \bSpace")
print("Form \f Feed")
print('\110')
print('\u2713')
print("\U0001F40D")
print("\x69")

Output-

New
Line
Horizontal	Tab	with	4	spaces
VerticalTab
Single Quotes's
Double Quotes"s
Returnge
Backslash- \
BackSpace
Form  Feed
H
✓
?
i

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