Printing Hidden Character in Python

[alex.ksikes at gmail.com]

Just escape the '\' character. So you would do:

print "\\n"

On Oct 26, 2:06 am, Wijaya Edward <ewij... at i2r.a-star.edu.sg> wrote:
> Ben,
>
> I mean while opening a file, like this
>
> for line in open('somefile.txt'):
>     print line
>
> printing "line" will not show the hidden chars like "\n","\r".
> Is there  a way to print it out?
>
> -- Edward WIJAYA
> SINGAPORE
>
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> From: python-list-bounces+ewijaya=i2r.a-star.edu... at python.org on behalf of Ben Finney
> Sent: Thu 10/26/2006 4:59 PM
> To: python-l... at python.org
> Subject: Re: Printing Hidden Character in Python
>
> Wijaya Edward <ewij... 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"
>
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