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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 insert special characters that are not directly printable or
representable in a string in Python. They represent non-printable or special characters within strings.

Quotes are special characters and to insert them in a string we must escape them with a \ character
in front of them.

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 special characters and formatting
actions. For example, carriage returns and tab movements. The backslash (\) is a special character and

is also known as the escape character in Python. For example, '\t' for tab, '\n' for new line and '\r' is for
carriage return.

Program 5: To print special symbols using escape sequences

Program5.py
File Edit Format Run Options Window Help

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 string:

Positive Indexing: Indexing starts from the left, with the first character at index 0.
Negative Indexing: Indexing starts from the right, with the last character at index -1.

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