Outputting \b in python?

[Luke Murphy]

I want to output

> \b

, so I do:

print('\b')
and a fancy symbol is outputted instaed. This doesn't happen for other letters? So how do I actually output

> \b

? Sorry this question is simple but not much comes in google when you do a search for this character combination...

[Luke Murphy]

Luke Murphy wrote:I want to output

> \b

, so I do:

print('\b')
and a fancy symbol is outputted instaed. This doesn't happen for other letters? So how do I actually output

> \b

? Sorry this question is simple but not much comes in google when you do a search for this character combination...

Answer...

print('\\b')

[chris webster]

You probably figured out by now that '\b' is a special character (backspace), just as '\t' is a tab, and '\n' is a newline, etc.