How can I get user input with line breaks

Question

When I do something like

userInput = input("Type in text")

and type in a piece of text like

"""
Line
Break
"""

that I copied from somewhere, the python console only assigns gets the first line, and then the next lines end up as the console thinking I'm trying to find a variable, with

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'Break' is not defined

as an error message. How would I get all the user input?

How would it know when the user has finished inputting text? — Alexander, Aug 18 '16 at 23:22

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 18 '16 at 23:17

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print "ENTER STUFF:"
user_input="\n".join(iter(raw_input,""))

I guess ...

answered Aug 18 '16 at 23:17

Joran Beasley

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Yeah... not sure what should happen if the OP wants a deliberately blank line inside what looks like a triple quoted string :) – Jon Clements Aug 18 '16 at 23:18

How can I get user input with line breaks

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