Printing a variable with \n

November 21, 2022

So I’m doing an assignment for my university’s Python class and I’m trying to print a shape (A*,B* and C* are variables, if needed I’ll post the full code)

A1 = None
A2 = None
A3 = None
B1 = None
B2 = None
B3 = None
C1 = None
C2 = None
C3 = None
if not A1:
    A1 = " "
if not A2:
    A2 = " "
if not A3:
    A3 = " "
if not B1:
    B1 = " "
if not B2:
    B2 = " "
if not B3:
    B3 = " "
if not C1:
    C1 = " "
if not C2:
    C2 = " "
if not C3:
    C3 = " "
print("  1   2   3 "
      "\nA" + A1 + " ---" + A2 + "---" + A3,
      "\n  |\  |  /|"
      "\n  | \ | / |"
      "\n  |  \|/  |"
      "\nB " + B1 + "---" + B2 + "---" + B3,
      "\n  |  /|\  |"
      "\n  | / | \ |"
      "\n  |/  |  \|"
      "\nG " + C1 + "---" + C2 + "---" + C3)

What is the correct syntax for inserting the contents of the previous command into a variable? I tried just copying and pasting it into a variable called box but \n is detected as a character and not as newline

>Solution :

Just replace the commas in your print statement with + so that all the strings are concatenated together (rather than forming a tuple):

box = ("  1   2   3 "
      "\nA" + A1 + " ---" + A2 + "---" + A3 +
      "\n  |\  |  /|"
      "\n  | \ | / |"
      "\n  |  \|/  |"
      "\nB " + B1 + "---" + B2 + "---" + B3 +
      "\n  |  /|\  |"
      "\n  | / | \ |"
      "\n  |/  |  \|"
      "\nG " + C1 + "---" + C2 + "---" + C3)

print(box)