\\n in code

[wavic]

\ has a special meaning in Python. So you have to escape it if you want to print it.

Printing single \ is not going to work that way because you are escaping the close quote

>>> print("\")
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    print("\")
             ^
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal

As it is here.

>>> print("\"")
"

To print \ you have to escape it with another \

>>> print("\\")
\

Here you cannot escape 's' because '\s' do not have special mieaning.

>>> print("\s")
\s

But '\n' represents a new line character.

>>> print("\n")

So to print \n you have to escape the \

>>> print("\\n")
\n