title: What does a backslash by itself ('\') mean in Python?
body: <p>I found this code in the nltk documentation (<a href="http://www.nltk.org/_modules/nltk/sentiment/vader.html" rel="noreferrer">http://www.nltk.org/_modules/nltk/sentiment/vader.html</a>)</p>
  
  <pre><code>if (i &lt; len(words_and_emoticons) - 1 and item.lower() == "kind" and \
              words_and_emoticons[i+1].lower() == "of") or \
              item.lower() in BOOSTER_DICT:
              sentiments.append(valence)
              continue
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can someone explain what this if condition means?</p>