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Hugo Bass
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Posted by Hugo Bass
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Can anyone explain the use of \n in K’s video please?

As above...

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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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The sequence "\n" is what is known as an "escape code". This particular one represents a newline, which causes the output to go down to the next line instead of continuing along on the same line. Without these codes, the separate code strings in the example program would just output on a single line, all joined together.

For more details, see the String and Bytes literals section of the Python reference manual.

Luke Maschoff
Luke Maschoff
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Luke Maschoff
Luke Maschoff
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^ To make it even simpler, \n makes it a new line.

print("Hello... \n World!")

This would output:

Hello...

World!