# strings and printing
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# basics
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print("This is a string. Surround it with double quotes.")
print('This is a string. Surround it with single quotes.')
print("You can use 'single quotes' in a string with double quotes.")
print('You can use "double quotes" in a string with single quotes.')
print('hello "there" you!')
input("Press ENTER to continue> ")
print("\n")
#
# escaping characters
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print("The backslash character \"\\\" makes the character after it be treated as a character, even if it normally has special meaning.")
print('Here it is another way: "\\"')
print("\\\\ is a backslash: \\")
print("\\t is a tab: x\ty\tz")
input("Press ENTER to continue> ")
print("\n")
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# handling long lines
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print("This is a very, very long \
string that goes on forever and ever, \
just like a lecture that is too long.")
input("Press ENTER to continue> ")
print("\n")
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# printing several lines at once
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print("This is a very, very long \n\
string that goes on forever and ever, \n\
just like a lecture that is too long. \n\
Notice it is split over several lines, unlike the previous one.")
print('''This is a very, very long 
string that goes on forever and ever, 
just like a lecture that is too long. 
It too is split over several lines, but doesn't use the "\\n" convention.''')
input("Press ENTER to continue> ")
print("\n")
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# no newline
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print("After this prints, the cursor stays on the same line ...", end="")
print("And now we end the line")
input("Press ENTER to continue> ")
print("\n")
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# concatenating strings
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print("To concatenate strings, use the \"+\" operator:")
print("hello + goodbye is " "hello" + "goodbye")
print("Now let's be excessively obsequious")
print("YESSIR! " * 10)
print("""
\t\t\t***********
\t\t\t* GOODBYE *
\t\t\t***********
""")