Printing a variable with n

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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

Asked By: hxrohxto

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Answer 1

The easiest way to do this is to use an f-string to substitute variables, and triple-quotes to allow newlines in the string.

variable = f"""  1   2   3 
A{A1} ---{A2}---{A3}
  |  |  /|
  |  | / |
  |  |/  |
B {B1}---{B2}---{B3}
  |  /|  |
  | / |  |
  |/  |  |
G {C1}---{C2}---{C3}"""
print(variable)

Answered By: Barmar

Answer 2

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)

Answered By: Samwise

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