Hey, I'm doing a project with Python right now and am wondering what the heck a "/n" command does?
ANY help would be greatly appreciated!
winz
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Jump to Postfrom where did you get this command ?
Jump to Posta newline is represented as "\n", not "/n". maybe a typo error
Jump to PostYes now it also depends on which os you are using!
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ghostdog74
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from where did you get this command ?
mouigher
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I'm looking in a my python book and it says when using multi-line strings,
"You can think of a text file as a string that happens to be stored on disk. Of cource, a typical file generally contains more than a single line of text. A special character or sequence of characters is used to mark the end of each line. There are numerous conventions for end-of-line markers. Python uses a single character called newline."
"You can think of a newline as the character produced when you press the <enter> key on your keyboard. Although a newline is a single character, it is represented in Python using the special notation '/n'.
Hope that helps you out. It was under the "Multi-Line Strings" section.
ghostdog74
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a newline is represented as "\n", not "/n". maybe a typo error
nytrokiss
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Yes now it also depends on which os you are using!
mouigher
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My typo. I meant \n. /n is dividing by whatever n=.
On Windows XP.
nytrokiss
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My typo. I meant \n. /n is dividing by whatever n=.
On Windows XP.
On windows xp it's /r/n which is the new line scheme for windows!
mouigher
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hah, oh gees. Crazyness.
nytrokiss
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sorry newline scheme it is difrent in every major OS
ghostdog74
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On windows xp it's /r/n which is the new line scheme for windows!
its like this "\r\n" in DOS.
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