title: What does backward-slash b do in Python?
body: <p>What is the purpose of backward-slash b in python? I ran <code>print &quot;\&quot;foo\bar&quot;</code> in the Python interpreter and got this result:</p>
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; print &quot;\&quot;foo\bar&quot;
  &quot;foar
  </code></pre>