How to write raw strings to Python

[Stephen Tucker]

Sam,

You use

r'hello\tworld'

The r in front of the string stands for raw and it is intended to switch
off the normal escape function of a backslash. It works fine so long as the
string doesn't end with a backslash. If you end the string with a
backslash, as in

r'hello\tworld\'

you get an error message.

Stephen.


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On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Sam Chats <blahBlah at blah.org> wrote:

> I want to write, say, 'hello\tworld' as-is to a file, but doing
> f.write('hello\tworld') makes the file
> look like:
> hello   world
>
> How can I fix this? Thanks in advance.
>
> Sam
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