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From: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: net.bugs
Subject: Re: outputtingbackslash
Message-ID: <5915@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 13:23:11 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 26 13:23:11 1984
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Reply-To: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum)
Organization: "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam
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>The best way to put a backslash into text is with '\e'.  At first,
>I wondered why they bothered putting this escape in.  Now I realize
>that it's to keep you from going crazy trying to figure out how
>many backslashs you need in any one place.

Still, in many cases you need \\e ...