How to write string literals in python without having to escape them?

Question

Is there a way to declare a string variable in python such that everything inside of it is automatically escaped, or has its literal character value?

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Answer 1

(Assuming you are not required to input the string from directly within Python code)

to get around the Issue Andrew Dalke pointed out, simply type the literal string into a text file and then use this;

input_ = '/directory_of_text_file/your_text_file.txt' 
input_open   = open(input_,'r+')
input_string = input_open.read()

print input_string

This will print the literal text of whatever is in the text file, even if it is;

 '   ''' """  “ \

Not fun or optimal, but can be useful, especially if you have 3 pages of code that would’ve needed character escaping.