How to keep \n in python as character instead of new line while saving text file-CodePudding

I have a list of sentences, I need to add new line character and save in text file as the following format. Note: I don't need new line character I want to keep in the given string format. I just want to keep \n and not get new line in text file list:['Hi','I am xyz'] String Format:'Hi\nI am xyz' If someone knows please let me know.

CodePudding user response：

In raw strings escape characters such as \n won't be parsed as such, but as regular text.

CodePudding user response：

The default behavior of Python requires you to escape the backslash so that it's not interpreted as a newline:

>>> print("\n")


>>> print("\\n")
\n

If you string contains more newlines, having many backslashes doubled might hurt readability. In such case, you can use the raw string literals to save you escaping:

>>> print(r"\n")
\n

Keep in mind that raw string literals cannot end with a backslash!

>>> print(r"\")
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    print(r"\")
          ^
SyntaxError: unterminated string literal (detected at line 1)

You can read more about this in the lexical analysis part of Python docs: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html