Oct 8, 2009 · When I mess around with // in IPython, it seems to act just like a division sign (i.e. one forward slash). I was just wondering if there is any reason for having double forward …

The // operator was first introduced for forward-compatibility in Python 2.2 when it was decided that Python 3 should have this new ability. Together with the ability to enable the Python 3 …

The double backslash is not wrong, python represents it way that to the user. In each double backslash \\, the first one escapes the second to imply an actual backslash.

In Python 2.2 or later in the 2.x line, there is no difference for integers unless you perform a from __future__ import division, which causes Python 2.x to adopt the 3.x behavior. Regardless of …

In python \ (backslash) is used as an escape character. What this means that in places where you wish to insert a special character (such as newline), you would use the backslash and another …

I have a string. In that string are double backslashes. I want to replace the double backslashes with single backslashes, so that unicode char codes can be parsed correctly. (Pdb) p …

Python does not "implicitly add the extra `` for you". It does, however, double the backslash when you display the repr () output of the string, as at prompt, purely for presentation purposes. len …

I tend to use only forward slashes for paths ('/') and python is happy with it also on windows. In the description of os.path.join it says that is the correct way if you want to go cross-platform. ...

May 21, 2013 · Python regex to replace double backslash with single backslash Asked 12 years, 5 months ago Modified 4 years, 2 months ago Viewed 41k times

Sep 30, 2013 · Python interprets a \t in a string as a tab character; hence, "D:\testfolder" will print out with a tab between the : and the e, as you noticed. If you want an actual backslash, you …