Python - I need a specific way of making multi-line input

Question

I need a to make multi-line input in Python. This is part of my program:

input_ = input("Enter text:\n") #This can handle only single line of text

Like this:

Enter text:

This is frst line, #Variable input_ would be only this line
this is second line,
this is last line.

I need something that would ask user to enter text (multi-line text) and when user Paste text (Ctrl + C) and he press Enter, program needs to put whole text into a list.

P.S. Please don't mark this as duplicate, because it's a little diffrent than other questions that doesn't help me.

In multi line input, you would have a newline character (enter) after each line. How would you distinguish that from the "user entered enter that ends input" ? — user1349663, Feb 08 '15 at 15:48
User needs to **paste** text, once enter is pressed input is over. — TypicalHog, Feb 08 '15 at 15:49
See my answer below Ante. The user can paste and then hit enter. — Malik Brahimi, Feb 08 '15 at 15:51

Malik Brahimi · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-08T16:13:08.927

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Try using a while loop:

listed = []
inputs = None

while inputs != '':
    inputs = input()
    listed.append(inputs)

listed = [i for i in listed if i != '']
print listed

edited Feb 08 '15 at 16:13

answered Feb 08 '15 at 15:44

Malik Brahimi

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What if I enter "some paragraph\n\nsome paragraph"? – Reut Sharabani Feb 08 '15 at 15:45
It should work fine until an empty input. – Malik Brahimi Feb 08 '15 at 15:46
But user needs to press enter twice after an input, can i fix that somehow ? – TypicalHog Feb 08 '15 at 15:53
No, this is as close as you can get to handle the multiline input. – Malik Brahimi Feb 08 '15 at 15:54
Ok, can you edit your code that saves text into list (1 line = 1 list item) – TypicalHog Feb 08 '15 at 15:57
How's this? Be sure to mark as answer. – Malik Brahimi Feb 08 '15 at 15:58
It works, but i need 1 more thing, how to remove empty item ('') from the list ? Do I need to do that after input is done ? – TypicalHog Feb 08 '15 at 16:05

Python - I need a specific way of making multi-line input

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