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Oct 29th, 2009

noob question about strings

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I want to create a string like this:
(just theoretically:-))

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import random
 
list1 = ["1", "2", "3"]
string1 = random.choice(list1)
string2 = "Random Number is" + string1
import random

list1 = ["1", "2", "3"]
string1 = random.choice(list1)
string2 = "Random Number is" + string1

but I want string2 to show up formatted like this:

Random Number is

2

But, for the life of me I cant figure out how to create a new line and a tab, without writing string2 like this

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"""Random Number is
 
                2"""
"""Random Number is

                2"""

I spent 30 minutes in the documentation and on google, and all i found was "\t" and "\n", but I cant even figure out how to make them work! Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks!

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Re: noob question about strings

try

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string2 = "Random Number is\n{value:^16}".format(value = string1)
string2 = "Random Number is\n{value:^16}".format(value = string1)

Also, you can read this

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Re: noob question about strings

thank you!

so the \n has to be in quotes.
I suppose I could eve do it like this:

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string2 = "Random Number is" + "\n\t" + string1
string2 = "Random Number is" + "\n\t" + string1

but that other formatting stuff is really going to come in handy!

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Re: noob question about strings

The other option is ...

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import random
 
list1 = ["1", "2", "3"]
string1 = random.choice(list1)
string2 = """\
Random Number is
 
       %s""" % string1
 
print(string2)
import random

list1 = ["1", "2", "3"]
string1 = random.choice(list1)
string2 = """\
Random Number is

       %s""" % string1

print(string2)

... this makes the output more visual in your code.

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