Python Day 2: Escape Characters

IntroductionWhen using the print statement to output variables, it can be inconvenient for certain special characters, such as newline and tab symbols, as shown in the code below.When printing this ancient poem, we often need to use four print statements. To output this content in a single line, we need to use the newline escape character.The meaning of escape is to use specific letter combinations to represent special characters.Returning to the problem we want to solve, to output a newline in the print statement, we need to use print(“\n”), where \n represents the newline character. For example, in the following program, although the phrase “春眠不觉晓处处闻啼鸟” is in a single print statement, the output result is still on two lines, which demonstrates the function of the \n escape character.

All escape characters and their corresponding meanings: