What is the alternate to \n in python?

Question

I want to print the following output in python:

 99 buckets of bits on the bus.
 99 buckets of bits.
 Take one down, short it to ground.
 98 buckets of bits on the bus.

with a single print command and no "\n" characters in between. How can this be done?

If you want newlines, you kind of have to put them there... How could you expect the program to just guess that you want newlines? — Paul Becotte, Sep 28 '16 at 02:34
Do you count `for i in range(10): print(i)` as a single print command or ten print commands? What about if you use a triple quoted string literal and there are newline characters but they're implicit? — TessellatingHeckler, Sep 28 '16 at 02:34

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 28 '16 at 02:41

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With triple-quoted string literals, you can use actual newlines instead of \n.

print(""" 99 buckets of bits on the bus.
 99 buckets of bits.
 Take one down, short it to ground.
 98 buckets of bits on the bus.""")

answered Sep 28 '16 at 02:41

Chris Martin

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score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 28 '16 at 02:37

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import os
print os.linesep.join(["99 buckets of bits on the bus.",
 "99 buckets of bits.",
 "Take one down, short it to ground.",
 "98 buckets of bits on the bus."])

edited Sep 28 '16 at 02:37

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answered Sep 28 '16 at 02:36

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lol, nice edit! Very impressive cross platform compatability – Paul Becotte Sep 28 '16 at 02:39

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 28 '16 at 02:38

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This seems to work:

print chr(10).join([
    '99 buckets of bits on the bus.',
    '99 buckets of bits.',
    'Take one down, short it to ground.',
    '98 buckets of bits on the bus.'
])

answered Sep 28 '16 at 02:38

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What is the alternate to \n in python?

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