Why eclipse + pydev print() output look strange with two strings?

Question

hay all, I just did the following:

a = input("give a word: ")
b = input("give another word: ")

c = a + " " + b

print("result is", c)

and get the output as follows:

give a word: name
give another word: word
result is name
word

my question is why the output on pydev or eclipse console in two lines? i expected to output as follows:

give a word: name
give another word: word
result is name word

how and why this happens to me? on cmd its looking fine??!!

also i found that python saves the strings with "\r", i think that is the one making this problem on pydev console, is it?

Answer 1

That's very strange.

Are you getting an extra newline after word? (you can check by issuing another print command).

Eclipse is always weird on console input. I would not be surprised if somehow it keeps a CR or a LF (or both) in the string, so that when you print each of them, you would get a line break. But then you should get another line break after word.

Answer 2

It seems to me that Eclipse + PyDev is storing the newline character in the string as well. There are a few variants of the newline character depending on the operating system: \n, \r, \r\n.

In any case, I think the following should fix your problem:

a = raw_input("give a word: ").strip()
b = raw_input("give another word: ").strip()
c = a + " " + b

I have tested this code on PyDev for Eclipse Galileo on Windows7 and it works.

Hope this helps