import os # a longer script with backslashes and quotes to test escaping round-trip lines = [] for i in range(2000): lines.append('print("line %d with \\\\ backslash and \' quote" % i)' % i) lines.append('x = "path\\\\to\\\\file"') lines.append('y = "a\\"b"') lines.append('print("done", x, y)') print("\n".join(lines))