Python: String Escape Sequence

What is Escape Sequence

A String Escape Sequence is a character sequence starting with backslash, inside String, to represent a character.

For example, \n means linebreak.

# \n means linebreak
x = "A\nB"
print(x)
# A
# B

List of Escape Sequence

\'

APOSTROPHE

\"

Double quote

\\

Backslash

\a

ASCII Bell.

\b

ASCII Backspace

\f

ASCII Formfeed

\n

ASCII Linefeed

\r

ASCII Carriage Return

\t

ASCII Horizontal Tab

\ooo

ASCII Character ID in 3 octal digits.

\xhh

ASCII Character ID in 2 Hexadecimal digits.

\uxxxx

Character with Unicode Code Point in 4 Hexadecimal digits.

• Python: Unicode Escape Sequence

\Uxxxxxxxx

Character with Unicode Code Point in 6 Hexadecimal digits.

• Python: Unicode Escape Sequence

\v

ASCII Vertical Tab

\N{name}

Unicode character named name. [see Unicode: Character Set, Encoding, UTF-8, Code Point]