How do I print the characters "\n" instead of whitespace using python and C?

Question

I want to print the specific characters \n in python and C language. Of course its the newline character so every time I say print("\n") or printf("\n") it simply prints whitespace. What I want are the specific characters \ and n as the output. Could someone please help with this?

Answer 1

In C you need to add another "\" to your code like this.

#include <stdio.h>
main() {
  printf("\\n");
}

For Python you can use repr

>>> string = "\n"
>>> print(repr(string))
'\n'