Python: String Escape Sequence

A String Escape Sequence is a special character sequence inside String to represent a character.

For example, \n means linebreak.

# \n means linebreak
x = "A\nB"
print(x)
# A
# B

Here's complete list of escape sequence:

\'

Single quote

\"

Double quote

\\

Backslash

\a

ASCII Bell.

\b

ASCII Backspace

\f

ASCII Formfeed

\n

ASCII Linefeed

\r

ASCII Carriage Return

\t

ASCII Horizontal Tab

\ooo

ASCII Character ID in 3 octal digits.

\xhh

ASCII Character ID in 2 Hexadecimal digits.

\uxxxx

Character with Unicode Codepoint in 4 Hexadecimal digits. [see Python: Unicode Escape Sequence]

\Uxxxxxxxx

Character with Unicode Codepoint in 6 Hexadecimal digits. [see Python: Unicode Escape Sequence]

\v

ASCII Vertical Tab

\N{name}

Unicode character named name. [see Unicode Basics: Character Set, Encoding, UTF-8, Codepoint]