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Python

Posted by Alex Golden
Alex Golden
4,098 Points

Silly Question: How to write paragraphs.... but weirder.

Hey Pythonisimos, Weird question: I am writing a longer piece of Print-able verbiage, something I want the user to see as a list. I used \n to make the list appear properly when it prints out. But now I have a stupid-long line of stuff that I have to look at behind the scenes.

Is there a way to make it look pretty on my end without getting an EOL Error?

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points

It's not clear what's causing the error from the description. Can you post the code (formatted with Markdown)?

1 Answer

Kirstin Kleyn
Kirstin Kleyn
870 Points
Kirstin Kleyn
Kirstin Kleyn
870 Points

You can wrap the next in triple quotation marks (''' ''') and then write out the list as you would like to see it printed. If you press enter in the list, it will appear on a new line when printed out.

i.e. print('''This is a long long list.''')

Will print as:

This is a long long list.

I hope this is what you were looking for!