Process escape sequences in a string in Python

Question

Sometimes when I get input from a file or the user, I get a string with escape sequences in it. I would like to process the escape sequences in the same way that Python proc

Answer 1

Below code should work for \n is required to be displayed on the string.

import string

our_str = 'The String is \\n, \\n and \\n!'
new_str = string.replace(our_str, '/\\n', '/\n', 1)
print(new_str)