Escape sequences in Python

 In Python, escape sequences are special characters that are preceded by a backslash () character. They are used to represent certain whitespace characters in strings, and can be used to format strings in various ways. Some common escape sequences in Python include:

• \n: represents a newline character
• \t: represents a tab character
• \\: represents a backslash character
• \": represents a double quote character
• \': represents a single quote character

Escape sequences can be used in both single-quoted and double-quoted strings. For example, the following code will print a string with a newline character:

print("This is the first line.\nThis is the second line.")

This will output:

This is the first line.
This is the second line.

Additionally, raw string literals, represented by prefixing an 'r' or 'R' before the string, will not interpret escape sequences, so you can use them to include characters such as backslashes and single quotes as part of the string without them being treated as escape sequences.

print(r"This is a raw string with a tab:\t")

This will output:

This is a raw string with a tab:\t