There's another little-known fact about Python: No string is permitted to end with a backslash! You might think that variations like r'\' or """"""\\\\\"""""" would allow you to create this elusive value, but you'd mistaken! Now, this may not bother Unix sysadmins, but the honest truth is that you'll be administrating Windows systems, too, anywhere you work!
>>> a = "\\" >>> print a \
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