Question

So, when I try to print help/info of Python functions function.__doc__, the console output instead of printing a newline when \n occurs in the doc string, prints \n. Can anyone help me with disabling/helping out with this?

This is my output:

'divmod(x, y) -> (div, mod)\n\nReturn the tuple ((x-x%y)/y, x%y).  Invariant: div*y + mod == x.'

What I would like the output to be:

   'divmod(x, y) -> (div, mod)

    Return the tuple ((x-x%y)/y, x%y).  Invariant: div*y + mod == x.'

P.S: I have tried this on OS X, Ubuntu with Python 2.7.

Answer 1

Looks like you inspected the object in the interactive shell, not printed it. If you mean print, write it.

>>> "abc\n123"
"abc\n123"
>>> print "abc\n123"
abc
123

In python 3.x print is an ordinary function, so you have to use (). The following (recommended) will work in both 2.x and 3.x:

>>> from __future__ import print_function
>>> print("abc\n123")
abc
123