Question

I have this code in Python

inputted = input("Enter in something: ")
print("Input is {0}, including the return".format(inputted))

that outputs

Enter in something: something
Input is something
, including the return

I am not sure what is happening; if I use variables that don’t depend on user input, I do not get the newline after formatting with the variable. I suspect Python might be taking in the newline as input when I hit return.

How can I make it so that the input does not include any newlines so that I may compare it to other strings/characters? (e.g. something == 'a')

Answer 1

You are correct – a newline is included in inputted. To remove it, you can just call strip("\r\n") to remove the newline from the end:

print("Input is {0}, including the return".format(inputted.strip("\r\n")))

This won’t cause any issues if inputted does not have a newline at the end, but will remove any that are there, so you can use this whether inputted is user input or not.

If you don’t want any newlines in the text at all, you can use inputted.replace("\r\n", "") to remove all newlines.