That's the internal representation that python uses for this. If I give it some other character, yeah, it would help if I could type, give it some other character.

为什么输入‘3’返回了其它的东西？,这是python在内部的表示方式，如果我输入其它的字符，是的，如果我能输入，输入其它的字符。

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So you have what are called escape characters like backslash N that is the shorthand notation of telling the computer put a new line character here.

幸亏我们有一些类似反斜杠n的转义字符,这只是一种简化方式,用来告知电脑要在这新添一行。

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