Newby: What's the problem with this string?

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On 10 Jun 2002 13:04:18 GMT, rumours say that fishfinger
<deathtospam43423 at altavista.com> might have written:

>For some reason I can't read this string from the command line ...

[snip of multi-line string]

>Why is that? And how can I make it work properly? The method I'm using is 
>.......
>
>ttt = raw_input("a string:")

raw_input stops reading as soon as you press the Return / Enter key.
IIUC, you need to ask for more lines until some predefined condition is
met.  The following returns a multiline string (keeps asking for more
until you input a single period):

# tested python>=2.2.1
def raw_multi_input(prompt):
	prompted_input= lambda: raw_input(prompt)
	input_lines= []
	for input_line in iter(prompted_input, "."):
		input_lines.append(input_line)
	return '\n'.join(input_lines)
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