Escape for str in Python

Question

Wow, this should be so simple, but it\' just not working. I need to inset a \"\\\" into a string (for a Bash command), but escaping just doesn\'t work.

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Answer 1

b is fine in the second example, you see two slashes because you're printing the representation of b, so slashes are escaped in it too.

>>> b
'tes\\ting'
>>> print b
tes\ting
>>>