How to write raw strings to Python
Sam Chats
saurabh.chaturvedi63 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 5 13:19:31 EDT 2017
On Wednesday, July 5, 2017 at 9:09:18 PM UTC+5:30, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2017-07-05, Sam Chats <blahBlah at blah.org> wrote:
>
> > I want to write, say, 'hello\tworld' as-is to a file, but doing
> > f.write('hello\tworld') makes the file look like:
> [...]
> > How can I fix this?
>
> That depends on what you mean by "as-is".
>
> Seriously.
>
> Do you want the single quotes in the file? Do you want the backslash
> and 't' character in the file?
>
> When you post a question like this it helps immensely to provide an
> example of the output you desire.
>
> --
> Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Is it 1974? What's
> at for SUPPER? Can I spend
> gmail.com my COLLEGE FUND in one
> wild afternoon??
I would add to add the following couple lines to a file:
for i in range(5):
print('Hello\tWorld')
Consider the leading whitespace to be a tab.
Thanks,
Saurabh
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