Print unlimited space in the shell

Question

Consider this line of Python code:

s = "This string has \n\r whitespace" 

How do i do

print s

give me

This string has \n\r whitespace

instead

 This string has whitespace 

as now.

Answer 1

Do you want a raw string?

 s = r"This string has \n\r whitespace" 

or convert special characters to this representation?

 repr(s) 

Answer 2

  print s.encode('string-escape') 

Answer 3

You need the repr function.

 print repr(s) 

Answer 4

You can use the python formatting capabilities to print a string in raw form:

 print "%r" % s 

You can also create a string in raw form, for example:

 s = r'This string has \n\r whitespace' 

and Python will handle the escape backslash, so this is exactly what you get:

 print s # outputs "This string has \n\r whitespace"