How to print the value of a variable in multiple lines in python?

Question

I am writing the plot of a movie from OMDB API. I want to limit the plot value to be within 80 length in the output. I have searched but, could not found anything. The jsonvalues['Plot'] can contain more than 80 characters. I want to print its value in multiple lines.

import urllib
import json

name = raw_input('Enter the movie name >')
url = "http://www.omdbapi.com/?t="+name+"&r="+"json"
response = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
jsonvalues = json.loads(response)

if jsonvalues["Response"]=="True":
    print jsonvalues["imdbRating"]
    print 'The plot of the movie is: '+jsonvalues['Plot']
else:
    print "The movie name was not found"

Posted an answer. check if it is what you want. – C Panda Apr 17 '16 at 07:48 — C Panda, Apr 17 '16 at 07:48

Miles Gillham · Answer 1 · 2016-04-17T08:05:04.553

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textwrap module does it.

import textwrap #insert at top of code
print "\n".join(textwrap.wrap('The plot of the movie is: ' + jsonvalues['Plot'],80))

edited Apr 17 '16 at 08:05

answered Apr 17 '16 at 07:39

Miles Gillham

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Though it's lmiting the output to 80 characters, however it's truncating the output. I want a solution to print the rest 80*n characters in multiple lines. Therefore, the data will not truncate. – Soumendra Apr 17 '16 at 07:44
Oh I see, yes, then you want the textwrap module. – Miles Gillham Apr 17 '16 at 08:03

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 17 '16 at 07:45

Check out if this is you wanted,

In [408]: import textwrap
In [409]: s = "This is a long line. "*15
In [410]: w = 75 # width
In [411]: print(textwrap.fill(s, w))
This is a long line. This is a long line. This is a long line. This is a
long line. This is a long line. This is a long line. This is a long line.
This is a long line. This is a long line. This is a long line. This is a
long line. This is a long line. This is a long line. This is a long line.
This is a long line.

There are all kinds of functions in textwrap module. Check them out.

How to print the value of a variable in multiple lines in python?

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