Question

I am using python and sqlite3 to make a database of physics solutions. I have a lot of LaTeX code that I would like to store, but I’m running into a problem. A lot of LaTeX code has characters that python interprets instead of just accepting as literal text. For example, I’ve tried the following to store \frac{}{}:

foo = "\frac{}{}"
foo2 = """\frac{}{}"""
foo3 = '''\frac{}{}'''
print foo
rac{}{}
foo
Out[10]: '\x0crac{}{}'

I would really like it to just be stored verbatim, as the original ascii characters. Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

Try to store them by prefixing the string with r:

In [1]: foo = r"\frac{}{}"

In [2]: foo
Out[2]: '\\frac{}{}'