How do I print the escaped representation of a string, for example if I have:
s = "String:\tA"
I wish to output:
String:\tA
on the screen instead of
String: A
The equivalent function in java is:
String xy = org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils.escapeJava(yourString);
System.out.println(xy);
from Apache Commons Lang
To insert characters that are illegal in a string, use an escape character. An escape character is a backslash \ followed by the character you want to insert.
Solution 2: Print Raw String to Ignore Special Meaning of Escape Chars. Alternatively, you can print a raw string r"..." to print the string without interpreting the escape characters. For example, the statement print('r"Learn\tprogramming\nwith\t') will simply print the raw string "Learn\tprogramming\nwith\t" .
To print a backslash to the console, we have to use the double backslashes ( \\ ). Let's try it. \n means a new line. We will get a new line when we use the escape sequence \n in the print function.
A character with a backslash (\) just before it is an escape sequence or escape character.
You want to encode the string with the string_escape
codec:
print s.encode('string_escape')
or you can use the repr()
function, which will turn a string into it's python literal representation including the quotes:
print repr(s)
Demonstration:
>>> s = "String:\tA"
>>> print s.encode('string_escape')
String:\tA
>>> print repr(s)
'String:\tA'
In Python 3, you'd be looking for the unicode_escape
codec instead:
print(s.encode('unicode_escape'))
which will print a bytes value. To turn that back into a unicode value, just decode from ASCII:
>>> s = "String:\tA"
>>> print(s.encode('unicode_escape'))
b'String:\\tA'
>>> print(s.encode('unicode_escape').decode('ASCII'))
String:\tA
you can use repr
:
print repr(s)
demo
>>> s = "String:\tA"
>>> print repr(s)
'String:\tA'
This will give the quotes -- but you can slice those off easily:
>>> print repr(s)[1:-1]
String:\tA
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