title: python assistance - syntaxerror: unexpected character after line continuation character
body: <p>I have just started to learn python and I keep receiving the following error:
  syntaxerror: unexpected character after line continuation character</p>
  
  <pre><code>c:\users\myname\python&gt;python helloworld.py
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The code works in cmd but not python. 
  I'm using Python version 3.7.2</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance! </p>