Quoting backslashes in Python string literals

Question

I have a string that contains both double-quotes and backslashes that I want to set to a variable in Python. However, whenever I try to set it, the quotes or slashes are eit

Answer 1

You're being mislead by output -- the second approach you're taking actually does what you want, you just aren't believing it. :)

>>> foo = 'baz "\\"'
>>> foo
'baz "\\"'
>>> print foo
baz "\"

Incidentally, there's another string form which might be a bit clearer:

>>> print r'baz "\"'
baz "\"