What does a backslash by itself ('\') mean in Python?
<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>