Welcome! Today, we're exploring Escaping Characters and Using Special Characters in Python. Are you ready for this engaging journey through Python Strings?

Let's consider a situation where you need to write a sentence with quotes or some other special symbols inside a string. That's when 'escaping' becomes handy. In Python, a backslash (\) is used to 'escape' special characters in strings.

For example, '\"' is used in Python to denote a quotation mark inside a string, as demonstrated below:

Special characters such as newline (\n), tab (\t), and the backslash itself (\\), impart entirely new functionalities to strings:

By incorporating special characters in strings, you essentially enhance their expressiveness. Let's create a string, for instance, that represents a simple table: