How to write string literals in python without having to escape them

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Is there a way to declare a string variable in python such that everything inside of it is automatically escaped  or has its literal character value    I m not asking how to escape the quotes with slashes  that s obvious  What I m asking for is a general purpose way for making everything in a string literal so that I don t have to manually go through and escape everything for very large strings  Anyone know of a solution  Thanks

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You will find Python s string literal documentation here   http   docs python org tutorial introduction html strings  and here   http   docs python org reference lexical analysis html literals  The simplest example would be using the  r  prefix   ss   r Hello nWorld  print ss  Hello nWorld

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There is no such thing  It looks like you want something like  here documents  in Perl and the shells  but Python doesn t have that   Using raw strings or multiline strings only means that there are fewer things to worry about  If you use a raw string then you still have to work around a terminal     and with any string solution you ll have to worry about the closing           or     if it is included in your data   That is  there s no way to have the string                      properly stored in any Python string literal without internal escaping of some sort

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Raw string literals    gt  gt  gt  r abc dev t   abc  dev  t

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If you re dealing with very large strings  specifically multiline strings  be aware of the triple-quote syntax   a   r   This is a multiline string with more than one line in the source code

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Assuming you are not required to input the string from directly within Python code   to get around the Issue Andrew Dalke pointed out  simply type the literal string into a text file and then use this   input      directory of text file your text file txt   input open     open input   r    input string   input open read    print input string   This will print the literal text of whatever is in the text file  even if it is                         Not fun or optimal  but can be useful  especially if you have 3 pages of code that would   ve needed character escaping

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if string is a variable  use the  repr method on it    gt  gt  gt  s     tgherkin n    gt  gt  gt  s   tgherkin n    gt  gt  gt  print s      gherkin   gt  gt  gt  print s   repr        tgherkin n

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