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Python

Posted by Cheri Castro
Cheri Castro
226 Points

What is '\n\' ? What does it really mean?

In my college class, we are using '\n' but, I don't really understand what this means.

1 Answer

Logan R
Logan R
22,989 Points

The "n" stands for "newline". When you call print, there needs to be some way of inserting special characters that do special things with ease. To indicate something is a special character, we use "\". Another special character is "\t" for tab.

You can read more about this on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_character

Hopefully this satisfies your question!

Cheri Castro
Cheri Castro
226 Points

Ah, thank you. I was looking all through my book and it only describes n as being a variable in certain equations meaning n= 50 or such. I could vaguely understand when would be an appropriate time to use '\n' but I wasn't really understanding what it was. Thank you for that explanation and you followed through and answer my next question about t, before I even had a chance to ask it. So, thank you for that as well.

Logan R
Logan R
22,989 Points

Glad I could help! If you have any other questions, always feel free to ask :)

Cheri Castro
Cheri Castro
226 Points

:)