How do I create a line-break in Terminal?

Question

I\'m using Python in Terminal on Mac OSX latest. When I press enter, it processes the code I\'ve entered, and I am unable to figure out how to add an additional line of code e.g

Answer 1

It almost sounds, by the way you've worded your question, that you're trying to execute your python commands at the regular shell prompt rather than within the Python shell.

Did you type "python" as the first step? For example:

$ python
Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jun 24 2010, 21:47:49) 
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
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