How to create a linebreak after line continuation symbol (\)

Question

I'm trying to pass a multi line command into the command line, the problem is that that requires using \ in the command, which is also the line continuation character in python. This results in the line breaks in the string to simply be ignored.

A = """line 1 \
line 2 \
line 3"""

print(A)

Returns:
line 1 line 2 line 3

Wanted return:
line 1 \
line 2 \
line 3

Is there a way to do this still?

Escapte the slashes: `A = """line 1 \\...` – joshmeranda Sep 12 '21 at 02:45 — joshmeranda, Sep 12 '21 at 02:45

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 12 '21 at 02:46

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Try adding more slashes:

>>> A = """line 1 \\
line 2 \\
line 3"""
>>> print(A)
line 1 \
line 2 \
line 3
>>>

Or escape it with r"":

>>> A = r"""line 1 \
line 2 \
line 3"""
>>> print(A)
line 1 \
line 2 \
line 3
>>>

r means the string is a raw string. So the text in it will be escaped.

answered Sep 12 '21 at 02:46

U13-Forward

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I actually can't believe I didn't try that.... It worked, thank you! – NFTLevi Sep 12 '21 at 02:48
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@NFTLevi Your welcome :) Please click the accept mark ✔️ if my answer helped, also please click the triangle pointing up ▲ for upvoting as well. – U13-Forward Sep 12 '21 at 02:49
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@NFTLevi Read more about it [here](https://stackoverflow.com/help/someone-answers) – U13-Forward Sep 12 '21 at 02:51

How to create a linebreak after line continuation symbol (\)

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