How to use newline '\n' in f-string to format output in Python 3.6?

Question

I would like to know how to format this case in a Pythonic way with f-strings:

names = [\'Adam\', \'Bob\', \'Cyril\']
text = f\"Winners are:\\n{\'\\n\'.join(         


        

Answer 1

You can't use backslashes in f-strings as others have said, but you could step around this using os.linesep (although note this won't be \n on all platforms, and is not recommended unless reading/writing binary files; see Rick's comments):

>>> import os
>>> names = ['Adam', 'Bob', 'Cyril']
>>> print(f"Winners are:\n{os.linesep.join(names)}")
Winners are:
Adam
Bob
Cyril 

Or perhaps in a less readable way, but guaranteed to be \n, with chr():

>>> print(f"Winners are:\n{chr(10).join(names)}")
Winners are:
Adam
Bob
Cyril