What does a leading `\x` mean in a Python string `\xaa`

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The leading \x escape sequence means the next two characters are interpreted as hex digits for the character code, so \xaa equals chr(0xaa), i.e., chr(16 * 10 + 10) — a small raised lowercase 'a' character.

Escape sequences are documented in a short table here in the Python docs.

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