Single string print statements on multiple lines.

[HeEm]

In my 100 level CS course, I was asked to create multiple lines of
output within a single string. Of course I know how to:

print "I am"
print "a python"
print "newbie."

How can I get this accomplished using a single string (assuming this
means a one line statement). Is there and escape character or
something that could be added?

Thanks for any help that can be provided.

[Diez B. Roggisch]

HeEm wrote:

In my 100 level CS course, I was asked to create multiple lines of
output within a single string. Of course I know how to:

print "I am"
print "a python"
print "newbie."

How can I get this accomplished using a single string (assuming this
means a one line statement). Is there and escape character or
something that could be added?

Thanks for any help that can be provided.

The usual one: \

Do

"first line\nnextline"

Diez

[MonkeeSage]

HeEm wrote:

In my 100 level CS course, I was asked to create multiple lines of
output within a single string. Of course I know how to:

If this is for a CS course, you shouldn't really be cheating and
asking for an answer here, should you? I mean, the whole point of
taking (and paying for!) a CS course is to learn CS, right? But like
Diez said, the standard C escapes work in python: \t = TAB, \r =
CARRIAGERETURN, \n = NEWLINE/LINEFEED, &c.

Regards,
Jordan

[Goldfish]

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Don't post homework questions.

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 05:40:44 -0700, MonkeeSage wrote:

HeEm wrote:

>In my 100 level CS course, I was asked to create multiple lines of
output within a single string. Of course I know how to:

If this is for a CS course, you shouldn't really be cheating and
asking for an answer here, should you? I mean, the whole point of
taking (and paying for!) a CS course is to learn CS, right?

"Always go over old ground, re-inventing the wheel again and again" is the
least efficient, most error-prone way of learning comp sci (or any other
subject for that matter).

There's a fuzzy line between "help me to learn this" and "do my work for
me", but it is a real distinction. One of the distinguishing
characteristics of an educated person and an ignoramus is that the
educated person not only knows more stuff, but more importantly knows how
to find out what he doesn't already know. That can include looking it up
in a reference book or asking somebody who does know.

--
Steven D'Aprano

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Goldfish a écrit :

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Don't post homework questions.

Given the way the question was expressed, I don't think this particular
rule applies here. Obviously, the OP is not trying to cheat (explicitelt
aknowledging it is homework), and has a good enough understanding of
what the usual solution is (asking for the escape char in Python).

Now of course the answer is in the FineManual(tm), which implies that
either the OP failed to read it, or that the FineManual is not so fine -
but that's another problem.

My 2 cents...

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:31:17 -0300, Bruno Desthuilliers
<br********************@wtf.websiteburo.oops.comes cribió:

Obviously, the OP is not trying to cheat (explicitelt
aknowledging it is homework), and has a good enough understanding of
what the usual solution is (asking for the escape char in Python).

Now of course the answer is in the FineManual(tm), which implies that
either the OP failed to read it, or that the FineManual is not so fine -
but that's another problem.

If the FineManual(tm) is the Tutorial, it only explain escape sequences
minimally, presuming some prior knowledge on the reader. For users with
previous experience in different languages (like VB or Delphi) using \n is
rather strange.

--
Gabriel Genellina