Printing Hidden Character in Python

[Ben Finney]

[Please don't top-post replies. I've corrected it in this post.]

Wijaya Edward <ewijaya at i2r.a-star.edu.sg> writes:

> Ben Finney wrote:
> > Wijaya Edward <ewijaya at i2r.a-star.edu.sg> writes:
> > > How can we print out the hidden character like "\n", "\r" etc in
> > > Python?
> > What result do you want that you're not getting with:
> >     print "\n"
>
> printing "line" will not show the hidden chars like "\n","\r".
> Is there  a way to print it out?

Again, I don't know what result you want to see. The characters are
non-printable; what output do you expect?

If you want to see a Python string representation of the input, maybe
the 'repr' function is what you want.

    >>> foo = "bar\tbaz\r\n"
    >>> print foo
    bar     baz

    >>> print repr(foo)
    'bar\tbaz\r\n'

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Ben Finney