[Tutor] Getting multi-line input from user

[Alan Gauld]

"wormwood_3" <wormwood_3 at yahoo.com> wrote

> On point 2, say I enter:
> Enter text, 'done' on its own line to quit:
> I am a sentence. I am another sentence.
>
> I am a new paragraph.
> done
>
> What I get out is:
> I am a sentence. I am another sentence.  I am a new paragraph.
>
> But that just shows the double new lines of my new paragraph as an 
> extra space.

raw_input strips off the newline character created by Enter.
You need to add it back in:

entry = raw_input()
user_input.append(entry+'\n')

HTH,


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