How to get input from user in python with multiple lines

Question

I want to get input from the user in python, but the input that is pasted in from the user has multiple new lines in it, so if I enter it as input, the new lines stop the input and I don't get the full input. For example if my input is hello\nworld (not with a literal \n but there is a new line in between the words), hello is used as the input and when the program is done executing, the terminal executes world like a command, which there is none. One way I was thinking about solving this is to have a forever loop of inputs and then combine the inputs from the multiple inputs, but that doesn't seem like a great solution because you have no good way of exiting out of the forever loop because at the end, there is another input running. Is there any way to get input from the user even if there are these breaks in them?

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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 12 '22 at 06:20

to get this task done, we can use sys.stdin instead of input(). we can use read() method (that reads all lines) combined with splitlines(). the output is a list of the input data without any new-line sequence.

import sys
inp = sys.stdin.read().splitlines()
print(inp)

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 12 '22 at 06:27

you can get multiple line using a little logic

print "Enter/Paste your content. Ctrl-D or Ctrl-Z ( windows ) to save it."
lines = []
while True:
    line = input()
    if line:
        lines.append(line)
    else:
        break
text = '\n'.join(lines)

How to get input from user in python with multiple lines

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