In Python, is it possible to escape newline characters when printing a string?

Question

I want the newline \\n to show up explicitly when printing a string retrieved from elsewhere. So if the string is \'abc\\ndef\' I don\'t want this to happen:

Answer 1

Another way that you can stop python using escape characters is to use a raw string like this:

>>> print(r"abc\ndef")
abc\ndef

or

>>> string = "abc\ndef"
>>> print (repr(string))
>>> 'abc\ndef'

the only proplem with using repr() is that it puts your string in single quotes, it can be handy if you want to use a quote