Adding backslashes without escaping [duplicate]

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The result '\\&' is only displayed – actually the string is \&:

>>> str="&"
>>> new_str = str.replace('&', '\&')
>>> new_str
'\\&'
>>> print new_str
\&

Try it in a shell.

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