How to include backslash and quotes in Python strings

Question

I\'ve got an array of special characters that looks something like this.

specialCharList=[\'`\',\'~\',\'!\',\'@\',\'#\',\'$\',\'%\',\'^\',
             \'&\'         


        

Answer 1

The readability of your list could be greatly improved by putting your special characters in a string:

>>> SCL = "`~!@#$%^&*()_-+=|{}[],;:'.>>> specialCharacters = list(SCL)

We're combining two strings, one delimited by " and where we put ', the second delimited by ' and where we put " and \\ (that we have to escape, so we have to put '\\').