Escape characters in output in Python - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the code to print a new line between words.

Python

print("Hello[1]World")

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A\r

B\n

C\\

D\t

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using \t which adds a tab space instead of a new line.

Using \\ which prints a backslash.

Using \r which returns the cursor to the start of the line.

The escape character \n creates a new line in the output.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to print a tab space between words.

Python

print("Hello[1]World")

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A\t

B\r

C\n

D\\

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using \n which adds a new line instead of a tab.

Using \\ which prints a backslash.

Using \r which returns the cursor to the start of the line.

The escape character \t adds a horizontal tab space in the output.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the code to print a backslash character.

Python

print("This is a backslash: [1]")

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A\

B\t

C\n

D\\

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using a single backslash \ which causes an error or escape sequence.

Using \n or \t which print new line or tab instead.

To print a single backslash, you need to escape it with another backslash: \\.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to print a quote inside a string.

Python

print("She said, [1]Hello[2]")

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A\"

B\'

C"

D'

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using unescaped double quotes which break the string.

Using single quotes which won't print double quotes.

To print double quotes inside a double-quoted string, use the escape character \".

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to print a file path with backslashes.

Python

print("C:[1]Users[2]Documents[3]file.txt")

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A\/

B\\

C\

D/

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using single backslash \ which causes errors.

Using forward slash / which is different from backslash.

Backslashes in file paths must be escaped as \\ to print correctly.