#! /usr/bin/python # # s = "Level 0\n\tLevel 1\n\t\tLevel 2" print s # raw string, note the leading r r = r"Level 0\n\tLevel 1\n\t\tLevel 2" print r # Regular expressions with delimited strings re_1 = "\\w\\d{2,3}" print re_1 re_2 = r"\w\d{2,3}" print re_2