I am teaching myself Python with a book, and, in one of the assignments I need to make a program to strip whitespace before and after a variable. It also says to use the \n and \t escape characters.

I can get strip(), lstrip() and rstrip() to work but \t and \n are giving me trouble.

Is there a way to use \t on a variable?

I tried this:

name = " shane waxwing "
print(\tname)

It only works on strings, like this:

print("\tshane waxwing")

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2 Answers

if you are looking for a tab or a newline in front of the variable you could use f-strings:

print(f"\n{variable}")

or, if you prefer you could use string concatenation:

print('\t'+variable)

NOTE: this works only if the variable in question is a string else you would need to convert it to a str object before:

print('\t'+str(variable))

or

print(''.join("\t",str(variable)))

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\t is used to provide a whitespace equal to a tab. for example:

Sample String : "Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are"

Output:

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky. 

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are

Solution:

print("Twinkle, twinkle, little star,\n\tHow I wonder what you are!\n\t\tUp above the world so high, \n\t\tLike a diamond in the sky. \nTwinkle, twinkle, little star,\n\tHow I wonder what you are")

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