Line breaks in list causing a small formatting problem while joining the list

[Oltmans]

Hi Python gurus, hope you're doing well. I've a small problem.

When I run the following code
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>>> names = ['oltmans','abramhovic','\n','sal','lee']
>>> print '| ' + ' | '.join(names)
| oltmans | abramhovic |
 | sal | lee
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I get the output like above. However, I want it to output like below

| oltmans | abramhovic |
| sal | lee


That is, there shouldn't be a space in the beginning of second line.
The list can of course contain more than 5 elements. Any ideas? I will
appreciate any hint. Thanks in advance.