You need to escape your backslash by preceding it with, yes, another backslash: print(“\\”) And for versions prior to Python 3: print “\\” The \ character is called an escape character, which interprets the character following it differently. For example, n by itself is simply a letter, but when you precede it with a backslash, … Read more
The String#replaceAll() interprets the argument as a regular expression. The \ is an escape character in both String and regex. You need to double-escape it for regex: string.replaceAll(“\\\\”, “\\\\\\\\”); But you don’t necessarily need regex for this, simply because you want an exact character-by-character replacement and you don’t need patterns here. So String#replace() should suffice: … Read more
/ is the path separator on Unix and Unix-like systems. Modern Windows can generally use both \ and / interchangeably for filepaths, but Microsoft has advocated for the use of \ as the path separator for decades. This is done for historical reasons that date as far back as the 1970s, predating Windows by over … Read more