Escape sequences are the sequence of characters that is translated into other characters or a sequence of characters that are difficult to represent directly.
All the escape sequences contain more than one character. They all start with a backslash ‘\’ also called Escape Character. Escape sequences are generally used in String. You can check out our latest tutorial on Python Strings to know more about it.
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>>> print('Hello\nWorld')
Hello
World
>>> print('Hello\tWorld')
Hello World
>>> print('I\'m backslash - \\')
I'm backslash - \
>>> print('\066')
6
>>> | Escape Sequence | Character represented | Example | Output |
| \a | Alert | print(‘\a‘) | NA |
| \b | Backspace | print(‘pyc’ + ‘\b‘ + ‘thon’) | python |
| \\ | Back Slash | print(‘\\‘) | \ |
| \’ | Single Quote | print(‘\’‘) | ‘ |
| \” | Double Quote | print(‘\”‘) | “ |
| \n | Page Line Feed (New Line) | print(“Hello\nWorld”) | Hello World |
| \t | Horizontal tab | print(“Hello\tWorld”) | Hello World |
| \uhhhh | Prints 16-bit hex value Unicode character | print(“\u0041”) | A |
| \Uhhhhhhhh | Prints 32-bit hex value Unicode character | print(“\U00000041”) | A |
| \ooo | Prints character based on its octal number | print(“\066”) | 6 |
| \xhh | Prints character based on its hex value | print(“\x23”) | # |
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