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

Python's quoting the backslash again when it shows you the representation of the string (in such a way that you could paste it in and get the string with an escaped backslash).

If you print the string, you'll see there's only one in the actual string.

>>> print "hello\\world"
hello\world