How can I print dictionary value without newline '\n' character?

Question

Let's say this is my dictionary.

d = {"id": 12345, "msg": "Some msgs \n from the \n text file"}

I want to print this dictionary as:

>>> print(d)
{
"id": 12345,
"msg": "Some msgs
        from the
        text file"
}

How can I achieve this?

Also, I'm not able to return a string with newline characters into a formatted string. Let's say below is my string:

str = "Some msgs \n from the \n text file"

On printing it, I'll get formatted string:

>>> print(str)
Some msgs
from the
text file

But how can I make below code work similarly to print formatted dictionary?

d["msg"] = str
print(d)

@HarshaBiyani read the 2nd line "I want to print this dictionary as:" — Darshan, Apr 13 '20 at 13:44
As far as I know python automatically translates `\n` to the proper newline character. — Avishka Dambawinna, Apr 13 '20 at 13:48
In the second part of your problem, you mean inserting the string to the dictionary. — Avishka Dambawinna, Apr 13 '20 at 14:10
Does this answer your question? [How to pretty print nested dictionaries?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3229419/how-to-pretty-print-nested-dictionaries) — Joe, Apr 13 '20 at 14:40
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20171392/pprint-dictionary-on-multiple-lines — Joe, Apr 13 '20 at 14:40

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 13 '20 at 13:48

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I think in this case you would have to loop over the dictionary elements, and print them as keys and values

for k,v in d.items():
    print('"{0}": {1}'.format(k, v))

answered Apr 13 '20 at 13:48

Sri

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '20 at 14:16

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I think that I know your problem, you can print it this way: define a dictionary as student_score:

for key, value in student_score.items():
    print(key, ' : ', value)

the output looks like this:

Sam  :  7
John  :  10
Aadi  :  8

All you have to do is use a for loop to iterate through the dictionary.

edited Apr 13 '20 at 14:16

wjandrea

answered Apr 13 '20 at 13:48

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Use this `print ('"{0}": {1}'.format(key, value))` instead of `print(key, ' : ', value)` :) – Avishka Dambawinna Apr 13 '20 at 14:04

Avishka Dambawinna · Answer 3 · 2020-04-13T14:19:26.327

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As far as I know, python automatically translates \n to the proper newline character.

d = {"id": 12345, "msg": "Some msgs \n from the \n text file"}
for i in d:
    print ('"{0}": {1}'.format(i, d[i]))

and you can add \t for additional indentation.

edited Apr 13 '20 at 14:19

answered Apr 13 '20 at 13:57

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