Print escape characters in Python

By Prathamesh Ballal

In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to print escape characters in Python.

Mostly in Python, we use two escape characters.

‘\n’ -> Leaves a line
‘\t’ -> Leaves a space

How to print escape character using r/R in Python

We can print the escape character useing r or R before the string.

Let us understand it with the help of an example

Example to print escape character using r.

#without using r
inpt1 = "hii,\ni am\tprogrammer "
print("output of inpt1:-")
print (inpt1)
#using r
inpt2 = r"hii,\n I am \t programmer  "
print("output of inpt2:-")
print (inpt2))

OUTPUT:-

output of inpt1:-
hii,
i am	programmer 
output of inpt2:-
hii,\n I am \t programmer

Example to print escape characters using R in Python

#without using R
inpt1 = "hii,\ni am\tprogrammer "
print("output of inpt1:-")
print (inpt1)
#using R
inpt2 = R"hii,\n I am \t programmer  "
print("output of inpt2:-")
print (inpt2)

OUTPUT:-

output of inpt1:- hii, i am programmer output of inpt2:- hii,\n I am \t programmer

Example 2:-

#without using r
inpt1 = "hii,\n this line\twill not print escape character "
print("output of inpt1:-")
print (inpt1)
#using r
inpt2 = r"hii,this are escape character \n and  \t  "
print("output of inpt2:-")
print (inpt2)

output of inpt1:-
hii,
 this line	will not print escape character 
output of inpt2:-
hii,this are escape character \n and  \t