[docs] [issue35962] Slight error in words in [ 2.4.1. String and Bytes literals ]

[Magnien Sebastien]

New submission from Magnien Sebastien <s.magnien at gmail.com>:

The documentation reads :

" The backslash (\) character is used to escape characters that otherwise have a special meaning, such as newline, backslash itself, or the quote character. "

However, 'n' does not "otherwise have a special meaning", nor does it represent a new line.

The backslash character does in fact do two different things :

1) It removes special meanings from characters that have one (\\).
2) It assigns a special meaning to normal characters (\n).

A better description would therefore be :

" The backslash (\) character is used to either escape characters that have a special meaning, such as backslash itself, or the quote character - or give special meaning to characters that do not have one, such as 'n', whose escapment '\n' means 'newline'. "

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 335205
nosy: Magnien Sebastien, docs at python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Slight error in words in [ 2.4.1. String and Bytes literals ]
type: enhancement
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.7

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