Is there a way I can print multiple lines using one print()?

Question

I'm new to programming and having trouble understanding Python. I would like to use only one print() to lessen its usage.

first_name = "Gabh"
Gabh ="Musician"
age = 21
height = 5.4
weight = 47
print(first_name + (" is a"), Gabh)
print(("age:"), age)
print(("height:"), height)
print(("weight:"), weight)

With this code, this is what I'm getting:

Gabh is a Musician
age: 21
height: 5.4
weight: 47

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 14 '22 at 01:30

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Use a single print() statement, with all the items separated by commas.

print(first_name, "is a", Gabh, "age:", age, "height:", height, "weight:", weight)

answered Feb 14 '22 at 01:30

John Gordon

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To add to John's answer, you can insert line breaks with a special string: "\n". This would help obtain your 4 row print statment instead of having 1 massive row. – patrick7 Feb 14 '22 at 01:32
Thanks :D I added "\n" to keep them in same format in the output. – gabhsey Feb 14 '22 at 01:35
@alexpdev The question was edited after I answered to add "multiple lines" in the title. Before that, it wasn't clear. – John Gordon Jun 11 '22 at 04:48

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 12 '22 at 02:49

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All you need to do is to use the '\n' command in the string. You might also want to use f-strings to make your code cleaner :)

print(first_name + (" is a"), Gabh, '\n', "age:", age, '\n',"height:", height, "\n","weight:",weight)

edited Jun 12 '22 at 02:49

cottontail

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answered Jun 11 '22 at 03:40

Jogvi

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Jack Deeth · Accepted Answer · 2022-02-14T01:50:39.407

If you'd like to have a preconfigured multiline block of text to print, and just add some values to it (bit like doing a mail-merge in Word), you can use the str.format method.

>>> help(str.format)

format(...)
 |      S.format(*args, **kwargs) -> str
 |
 |      Return a formatted version of S, using substitutions from args and kwargs.
 |      The substitutions are identified by braces ('{' and '}').

Multiline strings have """ (or, less commonly, ''').

template = """{name} is a {role}.
Age: {age} 
Height: {height} metres
Weight: {weight} milligrams"""

gabh = template.format(
    name="Gabh",
    role="Musician",
    age=21,
    height=5.4,
    weight=47
)

print(gabh)

(This is slightly different to f-strings, where values get put into the string at the moment it's created.)

If you have a dictionary with keys matching the {stuff} in {curly braces} in your template string, you can use format_map:

template = """{name} is a {role}.
Age: {age} 
Height: {height} metres
Weight: {weight} milligrams"""

gabh = {
    "name": "Gabh",
    "role": "Musician",
    "age": 21,
    "height": 5.4,
    "weight": 47,
}

print(template.format_map(gabh))

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 11 '22 at 03:55

This would be a nice clean way of writing everything with one print statement. Note specifically that print() has a possible sep argument that we can set to be a line break \n.

print(f'{first_name} is a {Gabh}', f'age: {age}', f'height: {height}', f'weight: {weight}', sep='\n')

Output:

Gabh is a Musician
age: 21
height: 5.4
weight: 47

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 11 '22 at 04:08

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first_name = "Gabh"
Gabh = "Musician"
age = 21
height = 5.4
weight = 47

print(f'{first_name} is a {Gabh}\nage: {age}\nheight: {height}\nweight: {weight}')

answered Jun 11 '22 at 04:08

Subhash Tulsyan

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Is there a way I can print multiple lines using one print()?

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