How to print "\" in python?

Question

print "\\"

It print me in console...

But I want to get string \

How to get string string \?

The statement you gave correctly prints the `\\` for me. Is this the only thing printing wrongly, does it get printed wrongly, even if surrounded by other characters? — Anand S Kumar, Sep 10 '15 at 01:40
duplicate? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6477823/python-display-special-characters-when-using-print-statement — widged, Sep 10 '15 at 01:41

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 10 '15 at 02:44

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There's clearly some sort of configuration with your console that's wrong. Doing this:

print "\\"

Clearly prints \ for me.

answered Sep 10 '15 at 02:44

Ethan Bierlein

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 10 '15 at 04:10

1

You can add letter r to string before quotes (r for raw). It will ignore all special symbols.

For example

>>> print '\x63\\ Hello \n\n8'
c\ Hello

8
>>> print r'\x63\\ Hello \n\n8'
\x63\\ Hello \n\n8

So printing backslash is print r'\'

answered Sep 10 '15 at 04:10

Speaking Code

This rapidly becomes the better answer when you have more than one special character in your string! – nigel222 Sep 10 '15 at 08:30

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