Why is it printing an @ instead of \100?

Question

I have the following program:

x = 0

while x <= 10:
   print(x, '\10')
   x = x + 1

It then prints:

0 @
1 @
2 @
3 @
4 @
5 @
6 @
7 @
8 @
9 @

Instead of:

1 \ 10, 2 \ 10 And so on...

Why is the program doing this?

`print("\\100")`. Read up on escape and special characters. – idjaw Feb 24 '16 at 17:59 — idjaw, Feb 24 '16 at 17:59

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 24 '16 at 18:00

You're escaping the 10 with a \ symbol and python is interpreting \10 as a code for the @ symbol instead. You can fix this by either placing an r character as a prefix for the string or by escaping the backslash with another one.

Fix:
    r'\10' #Raw string
Or:
    '\\10'

Why is it printing an @ instead of \100?

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