Python - Literals & 'r'

To avoid the interpretation of characters as special characters, the character, r , is added before the opening quote for the string as shown in the following example.

print('C:\path\name') # here \n means newline!

C:\path
ame

print(r'C:\path\name') # note the r before the quote

C:\path\name

OR

print('C:\\some\\name') #  '\' means use literally

C:\some\name

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