print('he said \'hello\to her 'he said 'helloto her str \just an ordinary character \"escapingh there is more general solution to the "quotes within quotesproblem preceding each quote within the body of the text signals to python that this is just an ordinary quote character and should not be treated specially note that what is encoded in the string is single character the backslash is signal to the python interpreter as its constructs the string once the string is constructedwith quotes in itthe backslash' work is done this process of flagging character to be treated differently than normal is called "escapingthe character