Python converting '\' to '\\'

Question

I am writing a program to sort a list fo input strings (song names). Those songnames contains latex chars like $\\lambda$, which i want to get sorted like \'lambda\' instead, s

Answer 1

The point is that you should use r'$\lambda$' moreover when you print the list it print a repr of each element to print

you should do

from __future__ import print_function
print (*mlist)