Python - Join with newline

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In the Python console  when I type    gt  gt  gt    n  join   I    would    expect    multiple    lines      Gives    I nwould nexpect nmultiple nlines    Though I d expect to see such an output   I would expect multiple lines   What am I missing here

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When you print it with this print  I nwould nexpect nmultiple nlines  you would get   I would expect multiple lines   The  n is a new line character specially used for marking END-OF-TEXT  It signifies the end of the line or text  This characteristics is shared by many languages like C  C   etc

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You forgot to print the result  What you get is the P in RE P L and not the actual printed result   In Py2 x you should so something like    gt  gt  gt  print   n  join   I    would    expect    multiple    lines    I would expect multiple lines   and in Py3 X  print is a function  so you should do  print   n  join   I    would    expect    multiple    lines       Now that was the short answer  Your Python Interpreter  which is actually a REPL  always displays the representation of the string rather than the actual displayed output  Representation is what you would get with the repr statement   gt  gt  gt  print repr   n  join   I    would    expect    multiple    lines      I nwould nexpect nmultiple nlines

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You need to print to get that output  You should do   gt  gt  gt  x     n  join   I    would    expect    multiple    lines     gt  gt  gt  x                     this is the value  returned by the join   function  I nwould nexpect nmultiple nlines   gt  gt  gt  print x      this prints your string  the type of output you want  I would expect multiple lines

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The console is printing the representation  not the string itself   If you prefix with print  you ll get what you expect   See this question for details about the difference between a string and the string s representation  Super-simplified  the representation is what you d type in source code to get that string

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You have to print it   In  22     n  join   I    would    expect    multiple    lines    Out 22    I nwould nexpect nmultiple nlines   In  23   print   n  join   I    would    expect    multiple    lines    I would expect multiple lines

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