2.1.1.12 Your very first program

The print() function - the escape and newline characters

This convention has two important consequences:

1. If you want to put just one backslash inside a string, don't forget its escaping nature - you have to double it, e.g., such an invocation will cause an error:

print("\")

while this one won't:

print("\\")

2. Not all escape pairs (the backslash coupled with another character) mean something.

Experiment with your code in the editor, run it, and see what happens.

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print("The itsy bitsy spider\nclimbed up the waterspout.")

print()

print("Down came the rain\nand washed the spider out.")

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