Quoting backslashes in Python string literals

You’re being mislead by output — the second approach you’re taking actually does what you want, you just aren’t believing it. 🙂

>>> foo = 'baz "\\"'
>>> foo
'baz "\\"'
>>> print(foo)
baz "\"

Incidentally, there’s another string form which might be a bit clearer:

>>> print(r'baz "\"')
baz "\"

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