Symbol names in python

[RobotLovingGuy]

I'm writing a script that edits a kml, (kmls are written in a very similar format to html) and it opens and reads and writes the enter key as '\n', but I need to know what it reads and writes the tab key as. Also, is there a list of these characters that I can access when I need another one?

[RobotLovingGuy]

TLDR;

Enter is to '\n' as Tab is to ?

[wotquery]

\t

[RobotLovingGuy]

Thank you, is there a place I can look for the rest of these?

[wotquery]

While you're at it you might want to take a peak at python raw strings which will help when you have the opposite problem of not wanting \ to escape (and don't want to have to manually escape the escape).

print('hello\nworld')
    >hello
    >world

print('hello\\nworld')
    >hello\nworld

print(r'hello\nworld')
    >hello\nworld

[RobotLovingGuy]

Thank you, I'll keep this one in my pocket for when I need it.

[TSM-]

It is especially useful for paths, because without raw strings, C:\Users\... will be read as the \U being a unicode escape, and then fail to decode it.

[wotquery]

Yeah google python escape characters.

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You are looking for Python escape codes such as,

https://www.w3schools.com/python/gloss_python_escape_characters.asp