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Python

Posted by Barbaros Yildirim
Barbaros Yildirim
693 Points

Printing backslash

I just want to print a single backslash () in python terminal. If I use escape character '\' like this, I got two backslashes. I just want to print one.

Thanks for your help.

2 Answers

Ahmed Bashir
Ahmed Bashir
1,351 Points
Ahmed Bashir
Ahmed Bashir
1,351 Points

print("\") since single backslash represents an escape character

Barbaros Yildirim
Barbaros Yildirim
693 Points
Barbaros Yildirim
Barbaros Yildirim
693 Points

This is what I got: Python 3.5.0 (default, Aug 9 2017, 22:11:38)
[GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-11)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

'''print("\")'''
'print("")'
print("\")
File "<stdin>", line 1
print("\")
^
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal