Question
Asked By – TTT
In the Python console, when I type:
>>> "\n".join(['I', 'would', 'expect', 'multiple', 'lines'])
Gives:
'I\nwould\nexpect\nmultiple\nlines'
Though I’d expect to see such an output:
I
would
expect
multiple
lines
What am I missing here?
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Answer
The console is printing the representation, not the string itself.
If you prefix with print, you’ll get what you expect.
See this question for details about the difference between a string and the string’s representation. Super-simplified, the representation is what you’d type in source code to get that string.
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