I am teaching myself Python with a book, and, in one of the assignments I need to make a program to strip whitespace before and after a variable. It also says to use the \n and \t escape characters.
I can get strip(), lstrip() and rstrip() to work but \t and \n are giving me trouble.
Is there a way to use \t on a variable?
I tried this:
name = " shane waxwing "
print(\tname)It only works on strings, like this:
print("\tshane waxwing")2 Answers
if you are looking for a tab or a newline in front of the variable you could use f-strings:
print(f"\n{variable}")or, if you prefer you could use string concatenation:
print('\t'+variable)NOTE: this works only if the variable in question is a string else you would need to convert it to a str object before:
print('\t'+str(variable))or
print(''.join("\t",str(variable)))\t is used to provide a whitespace equal to a tab. for example:
Sample String : "Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are"
Output:
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are
Solution:
print("Twinkle, twinkle, little star,\n\tHow I wonder what you are!\n\t\tUp above the world so high, \n\t\tLike a diamond in the sky. \nTwinkle, twinkle, little star,\n\tHow I wonder what you are")
