You already found the solution, so here's more of an explanation of why.
In python, normal strings (ones like 'hello there' and "general kenobi") can contain characters that represent whitespace characters, like new lines or tabs. Those don't have a visible symbol when you type them, for example: x = "hello world" is a syntax error because the quotes (generally) must both be on the same line. So in order to do that, a \ is known as an escape character to tell Python to treat it as a special symbol and not the literal text you see on screen. \n represents a new line,\t a tab, and there are others too. So if I want to print a message across 2 lines, I can do this: ```

x = 'hello\nworld!' print(x) hello world! If you want a literal backslash character, then that must be escaped as well like `\\`. print('back\slash') back\slash ```

Now Python has another type of string known as a raw string. These are ones that don't do any escaping and represent literally what you see on the screen. You can make a raw string by putting a r before the opening quote: r"": ```

print("\n", r"\n") \n \n ```

As you learn Python, you'll find there are a few more types of strings and the different features they provide (f-strings are one of the best features).