Bugl — code interview practice that feels like a game

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Flash cards

Review the key moves

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Core idea

What is the main idea behind Python - Escape Characters?

Lesson checks

Short Mimo-style checks built from this lesson's code, terms, and sequence.

1Quick choice

Which statement best captures the main point of this lesson?

2Fill blank

Complete the missing token from the example code.

___ = "We are the so-called "Vikings" from the north."

3Order

Put the learning moves in the order that makes the concept easiest to apply.

An example of an illegal character is a double quote inside a string that is surrounded by double quotes:

An escape character is a backslash \ followed by the character you want to insert.

To insert characters that are illegal in a string, use an escape character.

To insert characters that are illegal in a string, use an escape character.

An escape character is a backslash \ followed by the character you want to insert.

An example of an illegal character is a double quote inside a string that is surrounded by double quotes:

Example

txt = "We are the so-called "Vikings" from the north."

To fix this problem, use the escape character \" :

Example

txt = "We are the so-called \"Vikings\" from the north."

Other escape characters used in Python