Question

I need to print what a string in Python contains. I’m collecting data from a serial port and I need to know if it is sending CR or CRLF + other control codes that are not ASCII.

As an example say I had

s = "ttaassdd\n\rssleeroo"

then I would like to do is:

print s

Where it would show the \n\r rather than covert them into escape characters.

Answer 1

Python 2

>>> print repr(s)
'ttaassdd\n\rssleeroo'

Python 3

>>> print(repr(s))
'ttaassdd\n\rssleeroo'