Just escape the '\' character. So you would do: print "\\n"
On Oct 26, 2:06 am, Wijaya Edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben, > > I mean while opening a file, like this > > for line in open('somefile.txt'): > print line > > printing "line" will not show the hidden chars like "\n","\r". > Is there a way to print it out? > > -- Edward WIJAYA > SINGAPORE > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Ben Finney > Sent: Thu 10/26/2006 4:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Printing Hidden Character in Python > > Wijaya Edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How can we print out the hidden character like "\n", "\r" etc in > > Python?What result do you want that you're not getting with: > > print "\n" > > -- > \ "Two rules to success in life: 1. Don't tell people everything | > `\ you know." -- Sassan Tat | > _o__) | > Ben Finney > > --http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > ------------ Institute For Infocomm Research - Disclaimer ------------- > This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the > intended recipient, please delete it and notify us immediately. Please do not > copy or use it for any purpose, or disclose its contents to any other person. > Thank you. > -------------------------------------------------------- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list