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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.
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 6: To print special symbols using escape sequences.
Program6.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:
Positive Indexing: Index from left starts with 0.
Negative Indexing: Index from right starts with -1. Syntax for traversing a string:
<name of the string> [index]
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