Print all characters in a string

Question

Is there a way to print all characters in python, even ones which usually aren't printed?

For example

>>>print_all("skip
 line")
skip\nline

Answer 1

Even easier, cast it to a raw string by using "%r", raw strings treat backslashes as literal characters:

print("%r" % """skip
line""")
skip\nline

Additionally, use !r in a format call:

print("{0!r}".format("""skip
line"""))

for similar results.

Answer 2

Looks like you want repr()

>>> """skip
... line"""
'skip\nline'
>>>
>>> print(repr("""skip
... line"""))
'skip\nline'
>>> print(repr("skip    line"))
'skip\tline

So, your function could be

print_all = lambda s: print(repr(s))

And for Python 2, you need from __future__ import print_function