Python print string like a raw string

Question

Say I got a unicode string from json which is u'ab', if I print it , I will get a b.But what I want now is print a string exactly as ab. How can I do it?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26520111/python-print-string-like-a-raw-string

Answer 1

print(repr('ab'))

repr() gives you the "representation" of the string rather than the printing the string directly.