How to write multiple strings in one line?

Question

I\'ve started to learn Python with LPTHW and I\'ve gotten to exercise 16:

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ex16.html

And feel like an idiot because I ca

Answer 1

Here's one way:

target.write(line1 + '\n' + line2 + '\n' + line3 + '\n')

The reason the following doesn't work

target.write(line1 \n, line2 \n, line3 \n)

Is that line1 is a variable (note it's not quoted) but '\n' is a string literal (since it's in quotes). The addition operator is overloaded for strings to concatenate (combine) them.

The reason this doesn't work:

target.write('line1 \n, line2 \n, line3 \n')

Is because line1 is a variable. When you put it in quotes, it's no longer treated as a variable.