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Print "\n" or newline characters as part of the output on terminal

I'm running Python on terminal

Given a string string = "abcd\n"

I'd like to print it somehow so that the newline characters '\n' in abcd\n would be visible rather than go to the next line

Can I do this without having to modify the string and adding a double slash (\\n)

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2025-10-18 08:50:52 +00:00
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