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Python

Posted by Jackson Lai
Jackson Lai
3,538 Points

LETTER GAME QUESTION

What is print('\n\n') and end='' mean? what do they do? any other samples? I am so confuse:(

def draw(bad_guesses, good_guesses, secret_word):
  clear()

  print('Strikes: {}/7'.format(len(bad_guesses)))
  print('')

  for letter in bad_guesses:
    print(letter, end=" ")
  print('\n\n')

  for letter in secret_word:
      if letter in good_guesses:
        print(letter, end='')
      else:
        print("_", end='')

  print('')

1 Answer

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

\n stands for a New line. Kenneth was just making a couple new lines so that the game would look better.

If you press return or enter on your keyboard, it should make a new line.

By default, when you print something, it adds an extra newline to the end of the string.

So when I print two things:

print("Hello")
print("World")

The output will be:

Hello
World

However, if we set the end to be a space on the "Hello" print like this:

print("Hello", end=" ")
print("World")

Then the output will look like this:

Hello World

And of course, if we change the end to an underscore the output will look like this:

Hello_World

You see? That's how the "end" argument works.

Good luck! ~alex

Jackson Lai
Jackson Lai
3,538 Points

thank you alex!!!

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

You're welcome :)