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Asked: 2020-03-31 12:24:30 +0800 CST 2020-03-31 12:24:30 +0800 CST

Read multiline string entered in PYTHON console?

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I'm using Python 3.6 and trying to read a multi-line input to store it in a variable and then manage each line in a list for example. The structure of the code is something simple like this:

    print("Escriba la lista de ciudades de la siguiente forma:")
    print("Ciudad origen | Ciudad destino | Ruta | Distancia")
    cad.append(input())

I want to enter 3 lines for example (without pressing ENTER, copying and pasting for example)

Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
And I want python to store the 3 lines in a variable

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  1. Best Answer

    Input(python 3.x) returns a string, to split each element you can use splitthe strings method using the appropriate separator, in your case |:

    print("Escriba la lista de ciudades de la siguiente forma:")
print("Ciudad origen | Ciudad destino | Ruta | Distancia")
cadd = input().split('|')

    Edit: Ok, what you want by the looks of it is multiline input, input only reads until it hits an end of line ('\n', '\r', ...). whileA simple way would be to use an infinite loop . To stop the entry you can specify anything, in this case entering a blank line indicates that the user ends the data entry:

    print("Escriba la lista de ciudades de la siguiente forma:")
print("Ciudad origen | Ciudad destino | Ruta | Distancia")

lista = []
while True:
    inputs = input()
    if inputs:
        lista.append(inputs)
    else:
        break
print(lista)

    In this case you can copy and paste a text with several lines in the console and finally each line will be an element of the list.

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