How to print out different sentences into one paragraph/block?

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December 25th, 2012, 12:02 PM

bryanOnInternet

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How to print out different sentences into one paragraph/block?

hello everyone, I just started off learning python and got stuck with the following problem. Greatly appreciate any guideline that can be provided to solve this problem as follows:

>>>firstline="John likes to play football"
>>>secondline="Kevin likes to play basketball"
>>>print (firsline+" .")
>>>John likes to play football.
>>>print (secondline+" .")
>>>Kevin likes to play basketball.

instead of printing out the following:
John likes to play football.
Kevin likes to play basketball

which is in a block/ paragraph, each of the sentences is printed out straight after the "enter" is pressed. How can I solve this problem? Thanks again for any help that can be provided.

December 25th, 2012, 02:56 PM

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Code:

lambertdw$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2012, 21:51:14) 
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import textwrap
>>> a = 'John likes to play football'
>>> b = 'Kevin listens to Bach while playing his favorite sport, basketball'
>>> print(textwrap.fill('.  '.join((a,b))+'.'))
John likes to play football.  Kevin listens to Bach while playing his
favorite sport, basketball.
>>> 
>>> # use join method of string.  Example:
>>> ' ///// '.join(  ('iterable','of','strings')   )
'iterable ///// of ///// strings'
>>> 
>>> # End the final sentence with a period
>>> 'a string'+'PERIOD!!!'
'a stringPERIOD!!!'
>>> 
>>> 
>>> # invoke textwrap.fill to make the result beautiful.
>>> textwrap.fill('.  '.join((a,b))+'.')
'John likes to play football.  Kevin listens to Bach while playing his\nfavorite sport, basketball.'
>>> 
>>> 
>>> # Ooops!  print will finish the job.
>>> print(textwrap.fill('.  '.join((a,b))+'.'))
John likes to play football.  Kevin listens to Bach while playing his
favorite sport, basketball.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> # Make a narrow paragraph
>>> print(textwrap.fill('.  '.join((a,b))+'.', width = 20))
John likes to play
football.  Kevin
listens to Bach
while playing his
favorite sport,
basketball.
>>>

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December 26th, 2012, 08:28 AM

bryanOnInternet

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thousands and thousands of thanks

Quote:

Originally Posted by b49P23TIvg

Code:

lambertdw$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2012, 21:51:14) 
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import textwrap
>>> a = 'John likes to play football'
>>> b = 'Kevin listens to Bach while playing his favorite sport, basketball'
>>> print(textwrap.fill('.  '.join((a,b))+'.'))
John likes to play football.  Kevin listens to Bach while playing his
favorite sport, basketball.
>>> 
>>> # use join method of string.  Example:
>>> ' ///// '.join(  ('iterable','of','strings')   )
'iterable ///// of ///// strings'
>>> 
>>> # End the final sentence with a period
>>> 'a string'+'PERIOD!!!'
'a stringPERIOD!!!'
>>> 
>>> 
>>> # invoke textwrap.fill to make the result beautiful.
>>> textwrap.fill('.  '.join((a,b))+'.')
'John likes to play football.  Kevin listens to Bach while playing his\nfavorite sport, basketball.'
>>> 
>>> 
>>> # Ooops!  print will finish the job.
>>> print(textwrap.fill('.  '.join((a,b))+'.'))
John likes to play football.  Kevin listens to Bach while playing his
favorite sport, basketball.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> # Make a narrow paragraph
>>> print(textwrap.fill('.  '.join((a,b))+'.', width = 20))
John likes to play
football.  Kevin
listens to Bach
while playing his
favorite sport,
basketball.
>>>

wow! that was amazing, it helps a lot. Thank you very much.

How to print out different sentences into one paragraph/block?

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