Save string to file without converting newlines using Python

Question

I want to save the following string into a file using Python. The string includes n which I don't want to be converted into a new line. Here is my code:
text = 'hello "n" world'
file = open("file.js", "w")
file.write(text)
file.close()

When I open file.js I get the following output (which is expected):
hello "
" world

Is there any way to save the file without the newlines being forced to be be converted? My desired output to the file would be:
hello "n" world

Melvin Abraham · Accepted Answer

You can achieve this by escaping backslashes (\). So, you can just escape the newline character like:
text = 'hello "
" world'

You can also use something called raw-strings which automatically escapes the backslashes for you. These are strings that precede with an r:
text = r'hello "n" world'

Output

When written to a file, you will get the following, without any newline character in the middle:
'hello "n" world'

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