How to write raw strings to Python

[Stephen Tucker]

Sam,

You use

f.write(r'hello\tworld')

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

f.write('hello\tworld\')

If you try this, 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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