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Nov 16, 2015 · See the official Python 2 Reference about "String literals": When an 'r' or 'R' prefix is present, a character following a backslash is included in the string without change, and all backslashes are left in the string. For example, the string literal r"\n" consists of two characters: a backslash and a lowercase 'n'.

Oct 13, 2015 · %r is not a valid placeholder in the str.format() formatting operations; it only works in old-style % string formatting. It indeed converts the object to a representation through the repr() function. In str.format(), !r is the equivalent, but this also means that you can now use all the format codes for a string.

Oct 2, 2014 · Basically, with r in front of a string literal, what you see is what you get 1. Without r in front, python will translate various escape codes (\t, \n, \\, etc) into different characters (tab, newline, \, etc.)

Feb 7, 2012 · In python, there are two fairly natural choices to get a string representation of something ... str and repr. str is generally a little more human friendly, repr is generally more precise.

When an 'r' or 'R' prefix is present, a character following a backslash is included in the string without change, and all backslashes are left in the string. For example, the string literal r"\n" consists of two characters: a backslash and a lowercase 'n'.

Sep 17, 2018 · My questions are the following: What precisely is an r-string and how does it compare to an f-string? Are r-strings specifically used for matplotlib's mathtext and usetex? Apart from f-strings and r-strings, are there any other notable similar string variants or alternates that I should familiarize myself with or be made aware of?

The carriage return or \r works differently in different IDEs. Colab will give you the output 'return' that you were expecting while spyder will give you the output 'return use a carriage' (that's is expected from \r) Usually, ` \r` works as if we have shifted your cursor to …

Dec 8, 2019 · By default an f-string displays the result of calling str on the values inside the curly braces. Specifying !r displays the result of calling repr instead. From the docs The conversion field causes a type coercion before formatting. Normally, the job of formatting a value is done by the format () method of the value itself. However, in some cases it is …

The %s specifier converts the object using str(), and %r converts it using repr(). For some objects such as integers, they yield the same result, but repr() is special in that (for types where this is possible) it conventionally returns a result that is valid Python syntax, which could be used to unambiguously recreate the object it represents.