Escape for str in Python

Question

Wow, this should be so simple, but it\' just not working. I need to inset a \"\\\" into a string (for a Bash command), but escaping just doesn\'t work.

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Answer 1

'tes\\ting' is correct, but you are viewing the repr output for the string, which will always show escape characters.

>>> print 'tes\\ting'
tes\ting