《Learning Pyth0n 2nd Ed》中的列表：
| Escape | Meaning |
| \newline | Ignored (continuation) |
| \\ | Backslash (keeps a \) |
| \' | Single quote (keeps `) |
| \" | Double quote (keeps ") |
| \a | Bell |
| \b | Backspace |
| \f | Formfeed |
| \n | Newline (linefeed) |
| \r | Carriage return |
| \t | Horizontal tab |
| \v | Vertical tab |
| \N{id} | Unicode dbase id |
| \uhhhh | Unicode 16-bit hex |
| \Uhhhh... | Unicode 32-bit hex[1] |
| \xhh | Hex digits value hh |
| \ooo | Octal digits value |
| \0 | Null (doesn't end string) |
| \other | Not an escape (kept) |