How to deal with strings containing character codes?

Question:

201 is a character code recognised in Python. What is the best way to ignore this in strings?

s = '2016' 
s = s.replace('\', '/')
print s #6
Asked By: John Crow

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Answers:

If you have a string literal with a backslash in it, you can escape the backslash:

s = '\2016'

or you can use a “raw” string:

s = r'2016'
Answered By: Robᵩ