line you see when you type text on the screen for exampleyou don' see tab character the tab character provides space between two elementsand the size of that space is controlled by tab stop likewisewhen you want to go to the next lineyou use carriage return (which returns the insertion pointer to the beginning of the lineand linefeed (which places the insertion pointer on the next linecombination accentedcharacters that have accentssuch as the acute (')grave (`)circumflex (^)umlaut or diaeresis (")tilde (~)or ring represent special spoken soundsin most cases you must use special characters to create alphabetical characters with these accents included drawingit' possible to create rudimentary art with some characters you can see examples of the box-drawing characters at net/ /unicode/ - some people actually create art using ascii characters as well typographicala number of typographical characterssuch as the pilcrow ( ),are used when displaying certain kinds of text onscreenespecially when the application acts as an editor otherdepending on the character set you usethe selection of characters is nearly endless you can find character for just about any need the point is that you need some means of telling python how to present these special characters common need when working with stringseven strings from simple console applicationsis control characters with this in mindpython provides escape sequences that you use to define control characters directly (and special escape sequence for other charactersan escape sequence literally escapes the common meaning of lettersuch as aand gives it new meaning (such as the ascii bell or beepthe combination of the backslash (\and letter (such as ais commonly viewed as single letter by developers -an escape character or escape code table - provides an overview of these escape sequences table - python escape sequences escape sequence meaning \newline ignored \backslash (\\single quote ('\double quote ("(continued