I want to print a character or string like '-' n number of times.
Can I do it without using a loop?.. Is there a function like
print('-',3)
..which would mean printing the - 3 times, like this:
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1Possibly the shortest correct answer on Stack Overflow :P
dbr
2009-06-08 01:21:05
And bought me just enough rep to retag the question as beginner...
John Pirie
2009-06-08 01:36:32
If the OP is using Python 3, it's print('-'*3)
RexE
2009-06-08 03:41:11
This is mentioned in the Built-in Types section of the docs (and should be mentioned in the official tutorial) http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#sequence-types-str-unicode-list-tuple-buffer-xrange
dbr
2009-06-09 03:17:00