python Escape Sequences characters with examples

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Python 3 Escape Sequences

There are the following the List of escape sequences available in Python 3. The below table contains a list of Python Escape sequence characters and relevant examples.

Example 1: Escape Sequence Example

$ python
Python 2.7.5 (default, Jun 25 2021, 00:41:19) 
[GCC 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-9)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print u"\u041b"
Л

Example 2:

txt = "I am the so-called \"Pakainfo\" from the india."
print(txt) 
I am the so-called "Pakainfo" from the india.

You can run all below examples from python prompt.

Escape Sequence Description Example
\newline
Backslash and newline ignored

 
print("line1 \
line2 \
line3")
Result
line1 line2 line3

\\
Backslash (

\

)

xxxxxxxxxx
 
print("\\")
Result
\

\'
Single quote (

'

)

xxxxxxxxxx
 
print('\'')
Result
'

\"
Double quote (

"

)

xxxxxxxxxx
 
print("\"")
Result
"

\a
ASCII Bell (BEL)

xxxxxxxxxx
 
print("\a")
\b
ASCII Backspace (BS)

xxxxxxxxxx
 
print("Welcome \b Pakainfo!")
Result
Welcome  Pakainfo!

\f
ASCII Formfeed (FF)

xxxxxxxxxx
 
print("Welcome \f Pakainfo!")
Result
Welcome 
 Pakainfo!

\n
ASCII Linefeed (LF)

xxxxxxxxxx
 
print("Welcome \n Pakainfo!")
Result
Welcome 
 Pakainfo!

\r
ASCII Carriage Return (CR)

xxxxxxxxxx
 
print("Welcome \r Pakainfo!")
Result
Welcome 
 Pakainfo!

\t
ASCII Horizontal Tab (TAB)

xxxxxxxxxx
 
print("Welcome \t Pakainfo!")
Result
Welcome      Pakainfo!

\v
ASCII Vertical Tab (VT)

xxxxxxxxxx
 
print("Welcome \v Pakainfo!")
Result
Welcome 
 Pakainfo!

\ooo
Character with octal value ooo

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print("\110\145\154\154\157\40\127\157\162\154\144\41")
Result
Welcome Pakainfo!

\xhh
Character with hex value hh

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print("\x48\x65\x6c\x6c\x6f\x20\x57\x6f\x72\x6c\x64\x21")
Result
Welcome Pakainfo!

Some list of escape sequences are only recognized in string literals.

These are:

Escape Sequence Description
\N{name}
Character named name in the Unicode database
\uxxxx
Character with 16-bit hex value xxxx. Exactly four hexadecimal digits are required.
\Uxxxxxxxx
Character with 32-bit hex value xxxxxxxx. Exactly eight hexadecimal digits are required.

List of Python Escape sequence characters with examples

Escape Sequence Description Example Output
\\ Prints Backslash print “\\” \
\` Prints single-quote print “\'”
\” Pirnts double quote print “\””
\a ASCII bell makes ringing the bell alert sounds ( eg. xterm ) print “\a” N/A
\b ASCII backspace ( BS ) removes previous character print “ab” + “\b” + “c” ac
\f ASCII formfeed ( FF ) print “welcome\fpakainfo” welcome
         pakainfo
\n ASCII linefeed ( LF ) print “welcome\npakainfo” welcome
pakainfo
\N{name} Prints a character from the Unicode database print u”\N{DAGGER}”
\r ASCII carriage return (CR). Moves all characters after ( CR ) the the beginning of the line while overriding same number of characters moved. print “123456\rXX_XX” XX_XX6
\t ASCII horizontal tab (TAB). Prints TAB print “\t* welcome”     * welcome
\t ASCII vertical tab (VT). N/A N/A
\uxxxx Prints 16-bit hex value Unicode character print u”\u041b” Л
\Uxxxxxxxx Prints 32-bit hex value Unicode character print u”\U000001a9″ Ʃ
\ooo Prints character based on its octal value print “\043” #
\xhh Prints character based on its hex value print “\x23” #
LinuxConfig.org

Python Escape Sequence – Practice Exercises

#Exercises 1

print("PakainfoCOM is an \"awesome\" website.")

#Exercises 2

print("PakainfoCOM\n\t2020")

#Exercises 3

print('I\'m from PakainfoCOM.\b')

#Exercises 4

print("\65")

#Exercises 5

print("\x65")
#Exercises 6
print("PakainfoCOM", "2020", sep="\n")

#Exercises 7

print("PakainfoCOM", "2020", sep="\b")

#Exercises 8

print("PakainfoCOM", "2020", sep="*", end="\b\b\b\b")

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