syntaxerror unexpected character after line continuation character in python math

Question

I am having problems with this Python program I am creating to do maths  working out and so solutions but I m getting the syntaxerror   unexpected character after line continuation character in python   this is my code  print  Length between sides    str  length length  2 6      1 5     str   length length  2 6  1 5    Units     My problem is with  1 5 I have tried  1 5 but it doesn t work  Using python 2 7 2

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You must press enter after continuation character

Note: Space after continuation character leads to error

cost = {"apples": [3.5, 2.4, 2.3], "bananas": [1.2, 1.8]}

0.9 * average(cost["apples"]) + \ """enter here"""
0.1 * average(cost["bananas"])

User · Answer

The division operator is   rather than     Also  the backslash has a special meaning inside a Python string  Either escape it with another backslash       1 5        or use a raw string  r    1 5

User · Answer

Well  what do you try to do  If you want to use division  use     not      If it is something else  explain it in a bit more detail  please

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The backslash   is the line continuation character the error message is talking about  and after it  only newline characters whitespace are allowed  before the next non-whitespace continues the  interrupted  line   print  This is a very long string that doesn t fit             on a single line    Outside of a string  a backslash can only appear in this way  For division  you want a slash      If you want to write a verbatim backslash in a string  escape it by doubling it         In your code  you re using it twice    print  Length between sides      str  length length  2 6               1 5                           inside a string  treated as literal        str   length length  2 6  1 5     outside a string  treated as line cont                                          character  but no newline follows - gt  Fail          Units

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As the others already mentioned  the division operator is   rather than     If you wanna print the    character within a string you have to escape it   print  foo        will print  foo     I think to print the string you wanted I think you gonna need this code   print  Length between sides      str  length length  2 6         1 5       str   length length  2 6  1 5      Units     And this one is a more readable version of the above  using the format method    message    Length between sides   0     1 5    1  Units  val1    length   length    2 6 val2     length   length    2 6    1 5 print message format val1  val2

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The division operator is    not

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