Print New Line after a Variable in Python

# Table of Contents

1. Print a new line after a variable in Python
2. Print a new line after a variable using a formatted string literal
3. Using a triple-quoted string to print new lines in Python
4. Print a newline after each list item in Python
5. Print a newline after each list item with a list of integers
6. Print a newline after each list item using a for loop
7. Using os.linesep instead of \n to print newlines in Python

# Print a new line after a variable in Python

Use the addition operator to print a new line after a variable, e.g. print(variable + '\n').

The newline (\n) character is a special character in Python and is used to insert new lines in a string.

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variable = "bobby"

my_str = variable + '\n' + 'hadz'

# bobby
# hadz
print(my_str)

The example uses the addition (+) operator to print a new line after a variable.

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variable = "bobby"

my_str = variable + '\n' + 'hadz'

# bobby
# hadz
print(my_str)

If the variable is not of type string, pass it to the str() class before using the addition operator.

# Print a new line after a variable using a formatted string literal

Alternatively, you can use a formatted string literal.

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variable = "bobby"

my_str = f'{variable}\nhadz'

# bobby
# hadz
print(my_str)

Make sure to wrap expressions in curly braces - {expression}.

When using a formatted string literal, you don't have to convert the value stored in the variable to a string as this is done for us automatically.

# Using a triple-quoted string to print new lines in Python

Alternatively, you can print new lines by using a multiline string.

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variable = "bobby"

my_str = f"""\
{variable}
hadz
com"""

# bobby
# hadz
# com
print(my_str)

Triple-quotes strings are very similar to basic strings that we declare using single or double quotes.

But they also enable us to:

• use single and double quotes in the same string without escaping
• define a multiline string without adding newline characters

End of lines are automatically included in triple-quoted strings, so we don't have to add a newline character at the end.

# Print a newline after each list item in Python

If you need to print a new line after each item in a list, use the str.join() method to join the list with a newline (\n) character separator.

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my_list = ['bobby', 'hadz', 'com']

result = '\n'.join(my_list)

# bobby
# hadz
# com
print(result)

The str.join() method takes an iterable as an argument and returns a string which is the concatenation of the strings in the iterable.

# Print a newline after each list item with a list of integers

If your iterable contains numbers or other types, convert all of the values to strings before calling join().

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my_list = [2, 4, 8]

result = '\n'.join(str(num) for num in my_list)

# 2
# 4
# 8
print(result)

The string the method is called on is used as the separator between the elements.

# Print a newline after each list item using a for loop

Alternatively, you can use a for loop to iterate over the list and print each item.

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my_list = ['bobby', 'hadz', 'com']

for item in my_list:
    # bobby
    # hadz
    # com
    print(item)

By default, the print() function prints a newline character at the end of each message.

You can change this behavior by setting the end argument in the call to print().

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print('a', 'b', 'c')  # 👉️ 'a b c\n'

print('a', 'b', 'c', end='')  # 👉️ 'a b c'

The string we passed for the end keyword argument is inserted at the end of the string.

# Using os.linesep instead of \n to print newlines in Python

An alternative to using the \n character is to use the os.linesep attribute.

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import os

my_str = f"bobby{os.linesep}hadz{os.linesep}com"

# bobby
# hadz
# com
print(my_str)

The os.linesep attribute returns the string that is used to separate lines on the current platform.

For example \n on Unix and \r\n on Windows.

So if you have a simple txt file that looks like the following:

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bobby
hadz
com

You can use the file.readlines() method to get a list of the lines in the file.

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with open('example.txt', 'r', encoding="utf-8") as f:
    lines = f.readlines()

    print(lines)  # 👉️ ['bobby\n', 'hadz\n', 'com']

    # bobby
    # hadz
    # com
    for line in lines:
        print(line, end='')

Notice that a newline character is automatically inserted after each line in the file.

When writing to a file, you can use the newline (\n) character to insert a new line.

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with open('example.txt', 'w', encoding='utf-8') as my_file:
    my_file.write('bobby' + '\n')
    my_file.write('hadz' + '\n')
    my_file.write('com' + '\n')

This works in the same way it works with strings.

The file's contents look as follows.

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bobby
hadz
com

# Additional Resources

You can learn more about the related topics by checking out the following tutorials:

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• How to print Integer values in Python
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