Consider the following Python 2.7 code:
print "\\"
Expected result: \\
Actual result: \
Why does Python only print out a single backslash?
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To get the intended result, you can put `r` before the string, which disables escape characters: `r"\\"` – Aaron Christiansen Sep 19 '16 at 13:18
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It's because \ is the escape character, it escape sequences like newlines and carriage returns. To print out two you can do:
print "\\\\"
Or:
print r"\\"
r prefix tells to ignore escape characters.
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