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How would I print '\x08' as '\x08' in python? If I enter the command 

print '\x08'

the output is blank instead of

\x08
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Please use r before string, it means raw string, in which you don't need to escape special chars. For more details about string literal prefixes please read the documentation.

print r'\x08'
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yeah but the string is stored in a variable (i.e. s = '\x08'), how do I print the raw variable?
nvm i found out that i can use .format and format the string variable as a raw string
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You can just escape '\x08' (backspace character) by doing,

print '\\x08'
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In general, you can also do print repr(c).strip("'"), where c is the string you want to view in the code format, ie TAB will show as '\t' and newline as '\n' and so on..

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