Display special characters when using print statement
Do you merely want to print the string that way, or do you want that to be the internal representation of the string? If the latter, create it as a raw string by prefixing it with r: r"Hello\tWorld\nHello World".
>>> a = r"Hello\tWorld\nHello World">>> a # in the interpreter, this calls repr()'Hello\\tWorld\\nHello World'>>> print aHello\tWorld\nHello WorldAlso, \s is not an escape character, except in regular expressions, and then it still has a much different meaning than what you're using it for.