On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Alexander Q. <alexxqu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Jerry Hill <malaclyp...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Alexander Q. <alexxqu...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > I'm following the tutorial from python.org >> > (http://docs.python.org/tutorial/introduction.html) and am having a few >> > indiscrepancies regarding the new line command. >> > >> > The tutorial says that this code >> > >> > hello = "This is a rather long string containing\n\ >> > several lines of text just as you would do in C.\n\ >> > Note that whitespace at the beginning of the line is\ >> > significant." >> > >> > should yield this output: >> > >> > This is a rather long string containing >> > several lines of text just as you would do in C. >> > Note that whitespace at the beginning of the line is significant. >> >> You left out the other line of code in the tutorial, which says you >> need to do print(hello) to the the output that is described. Did you >> do that? If so, it should work fine. If not, what did you do >> instead? If you just typed: >> >> >>>hello >> >> at the interpreter prompt, then you are actually seeing the equivalent >> of print(repr(hello)), instead of print(hello). >> >> Can you copy and paste your session for us? >> >> Jerry >> > > That was it Jerry- when I typed in "print hello" instead of just "hello", > the output was exactly like the one in the tutorial. Alternatively, I could > accomplish the same type of output by using triple quotes around the same > text, except that I would have to format it manually if I want it to come > out looking the same way as it did when using "\n" in the previous example? > Thanks again for your help. The way I understand it from your explanation > is that "hello" does a literal output of everything typed without > processing the escape backslashes, while "print hello" does process them. > > -Alex > > Yes, thanks Matt- I realized my mistake soon after sending the email. -Alex
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