Strings

You currently make strings using single quotes(').

rcaron
print 'this is a string'

rcaron
print 'this is a string'

Escape sequences

You can use escape sequences in strings, they are started with the backslash character(\).

rcaron
print 'this is a string with a pretty \r\n newline'

rcaron
print 'this is a string with a pretty \r\n newline'

• \' - single quote
• \\ - backslash
• \0 - null
• \a - alert
• \b - backspace
• \f - form feed
• \n - newline
• \r - carriage return
• \t - horizontal tab
• \v - vertical tab

Unicode escape sequences

Then we also have the unicode escape codes. The one starting with \u always takes 4 digits and the one starting with \U always takes 8 hex digits.

rcaron
print '\u0041' # A
print '\U00000041' # A

rcaron
print '\u0041' # A
print '\U00000041' # A