title: Python syntaxerror: unexpected character after line continuation character
body: <p>I'm just starting python so am most likely just doing something stupid. I'm reading data off of a table and need to put them into columns in a txt file. I cannot convince my code to create a new line.</p>
  
  <p>Here is my code-</p>
  
  <pre><code>file = open("test_m.rdb")
  table = open('table.txt', 'w+')
  
  trash = file.readline()
  
  trash = file.readline()
  
  data = file.readline()
  i = data.split()
  flux = i[2]
  observed = i[4]
  table.write(flux + " " + observed,)
  
  while 1:
      line = file.readline()
      i = line.split()
      try:
          flux = i[2]
          observed = i[4]
      except IndexError:
          break
      table.write(\nflux + " " + observed)
  table.close()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And the error reads-</p>
  
  <pre><code>File "PlotRdbFile.py", line 24
      table.write(\nflux + " " + observed)
                                     ^
  SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thank you in advance for finding my mistake.</p>