wormwood_3 wrote:
Hello everyone,
I'd like to prompt the user for input and get back multiple lines, for
example if someone wanted to enter a few paragraphs. Then I'd like to
be able to print their input out and preserve formatting. Here's what
I have so far:
control = True
user_input = []
while control:
if not user_input:
entry = raw_input("Enter text, 'done' on its own line to quit:
\n")
user_input.append(entry)
else:
entry = raw_input("")
user_input.append(entry)
if entry == "done":
del user_input[-1]
control = False
user_input = ' '.join(user_input)
print user_input
So you end up with:
Enter text, 'done' on its own line to quit:
I am some text.
And I am more.
I am a new paragraph.
done
I am some text. And I am more. I am a new paragraph.
1) Is there a more elegant/common way to get multi-line user input
than this sort of thing?
For starters you can simplify things a lot:
user_input = []
entry = raw_input("Enter text, 'done' on its own line to quit: \n")
while entry != "done":
user_input.append(entry)
entry = raw_input("")
user_input = ' '.join(user_input)
print user_input
2) How can I combine and print the output so that paragraphs and the
like are preserved?
I don't understand. Please give an example.
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