### 1.4.10.2 Interactive Prompt

The Interactive Prompt obeys the same special character rules as Python and SQL described above. One point which could cause confusion is the way the Interactive Prompt displays strings. If strings can be easily displayed they are. Otherwise the `repr()` function is used on them to explicitly display all their escape characters. This means all genuine backslashes appear double quoted.

    Python 2.4 (#60, Nov 30 2004, 11:49:19) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> print repr('hello\nworld\%once\\more')
    'hello\nworld\\%once\\more'