Python: How to use Escape character to solve "SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character"?

Question

What I want to do:

I want to print the following message as output:

Hi "alias" your phone number is "1234567890" and your email ID is "foo@bar.foo"

Python Code

name= "alias"
phone= "1234567890"
email="foo@bar.foo"

print("Hi " + name + " your phone number is " + phone + " and your email ID is " + email)

This gives me the following output:

Hi alias your phone number is 1234567890 and your email ID is foo@bar.foo

But here double quote (" ") is missing.

What I tried to solve this:

print("Hi " + \" name \" + " your phone number is " + \" phone \"+ " and your email ID is " + \" email \")

No, the escaped quotes need to be inside the non-escaped ones. But why don't you use single quotes for the surrounding ones, anyway? — Daniel Roseman, Dec 12 '18 at 12:31
`'Hi "{}" your phone number is "{}" and your email ID is "{}"'.format(name, phone, email)` — Chris_Rands, Dec 12 '18 at 12:31
What are reasons for down vote? How do I know if the answer already exists ? I searched but I could not find the solution. — Dipankar Nalui, Dec 12 '18 at 12:55

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 12 '18 at 12:31

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Use str.format

Ex:

name= "alias"
phone= "1234567890"
email="foo@bar.foo"

result = 'Hi "{}" your phone number is {} and your email ID is {}'
print(result.format(name, phone, email))

or f-string(py3.6)

result = f'Hi "{name}" your phone number is {phone} and your email ID is {email}'
print(result)

answered Dec 12 '18 at 12:31

Rakesh

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This works fine! – Dipankar Nalui Dec 12 '18 at 12:55

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 12 '18 at 12:33

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Use the two types of quotation mark:

print('Hi "' + name + '" your phone number is "' + phone + '" and your email ID is "' + email + '"')

answered Dec 12 '18 at 12:33

DavidPM

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 12 '18 at 12:35

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replace the print line with : print("Hi " + "\""+ name +"\"" + " your phone number is " + "\""+ phone +"\""+ " and your email ID is " +"\""+ email+ "\"")

answered Dec 12 '18 at 12:35

ddor254

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Python: How to use Escape character to solve "SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character"?

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