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Understanding and Using Escape Characters

In programming, an escape character is a symbol used to represent special characters or to change the typical meaning of characters within a string.

Escape characters are composed of a backslash (\) followed by certain character(s).


Common Escape Characters​

  • \n: New Line

  • \t: Tab

  • \\: Backslash

  • \": Double Quote

  • \': Single Quote

Example of Using Escape Characters
print("Python\nProgramming Study!")  # New line

print("This is\ta tab.")  # Tab

print("She said: \"Hello!\"")  # Double Quote

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