What does escape mean

Answer 1

In python and other programming language , escaping a character is to precede it with '\" to change the character meaning in a string:

\n means 'new line' (rather than n)

in " string\"abc\" " , the double quotes around 'abc' are escaped so that they are not confused with the end of string.

Answer 2

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