Any way to capture the entirety of the terminal?

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I am using discord.py and I need the bot to send a multi-line message. This is easy to do, but sending each line separately is a pain and it isn't very quick. So I thought, why not have it send the whole shebang at once?

All I need is to somehow take everything inside of the terminal and set that as a variable that I can later send as a single message.

Here's the entire terminal output:

Here's the entire terminal output

Can't you just send a message that has linebreaks inside it? — Samwise, Jun 06 '20 at 22:30
i dont see how i could. the data that is printed comes from a cycled list where the number of items is inconsistant. — thehammerons, Jun 06 '20 at 23:01
@Samwise you were right man, i just had to use the range of the len(list) — thehammerons, Jun 07 '20 at 01:42

trish_s · Answer 1 · 2020-06-06T22:40:34.227

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It looks like your data is roughly tabular - why not write to csv or json and send it that way?

Alternatively, f-strings in python preserve formatting, and can be multiple lines, although I don't think that's recommended by PEP8.

EDIT Here is a somewhat related question that covers multi-line strings: Multiline f-string in Python

edited Jun 06 '20 at 22:40

answered Jun 06 '20 at 22:33

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Any way to capture the entirety of the terminal?

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