Introduction
Quick recap
Indexing and slicing
Instruction
Good job! The backslash (\) is a character used to "escape" special characters. Take a look:
introduction = 'Hello, I\'m John!'
This will print:
Hello, I'm John!
Normally, an apostrophe is interpreted as the end of a string. That's why we need to "escape" it with a backslash. The backslash itself won't be printed, but the apostrophe will.
The backslash is a special character itself. To escape it, you need another backslash:
print('This is a single backslash: \\')
This will print:
This is a single backslash: \
Exercise
Store the following sentence in a variable named language_tip:
Instead of "dos and don'ts", some people tend to write "do's and don'ts". To be consistent, they should actually write "do's and don't's" to make "don't" plural!
Stuck? Here's a hint!
If you decide to surround the variable with single quotes, then you need to put a backslash before every apostrophe inside the variable.
