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You will get the following output:

                     Output

                  A sequence of
                  characters are called a string.
                  Strings are used by programming
                  languages to manipulate text such
                  as words and sentences.




                 USING ESCAPE SEQUENCES WITH STRINGS

                 Escape sequences or characters are used to represent special characters that  cannot be directly
                 inserted into a string.
                 An escape  sequence  is  a sequence  of characters that  does  not  represent  itself  when used

                 inside a character or string. It is typically used to specify actions such as carriage returns and
                 tab movements. To include special characters like quotes within a string, you need to escape
                 them with a backslash. The backslash (\) is a special character and is also known as the escape
                 character in Python. It is used to represent white space characters, for example, '\t' for tab, '\n' for
                 new line, and '\r' is for carriage return.

                 Program 6: To print special symbols using escape sequences.

                     Program6.py

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                  print('I love programming in \n Python')



                 You will get the following output:

                     Output

                  I love programming in
                   Python



                 TRAVERSING A STRING

                 Traversing means visiting each element and processing it as required by the program. We can
                 access the characters of a string one at a time using indexing.
                 There are two ways of indexing a list:

                   Positive Indexing: Index from left starts with 0.

                   Negative Indexing: Index from right starts with -1.
                 The syntax for traversing a string is as follows:

                   <name of the string> [index]



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