# Issues with printing the same string multiple times

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/issues-with-printing-the-same-string-multiple-times/9520>\
**Category:** Python Help\
**Created:** [July 1, 2021, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/issues-with-printing-the-same-string-multiple-times/9520 "2021-07-01T09:16:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![abbaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/13edae/32.png) [@abbaji](https://discuss.python.org/u/abbaji)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/issues-with-printing-the-same-string-multiple-times/9520/1 "2021-07-01T09:16:31Z")

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Hi all the wonderful people out there. I am new to python programming and still struggling to learn it.  
I wanted to print a string 10 times with a single line of code. I did the following:  
var1="Hello World " - Hello World is defined as var1

print(10\*‘Hello World’) - Text Hello World is printed 10 times in a straight line

print(10\*‘Hello World\n’) - Text Hello World is printed 10 times vertically on separate lines

print(10\*var1) - Text Hello World is printed 10 times in a straight line

print(10\* ‘var1\n’) - word var1 is printed 10 times vertically not Hello World while var1 refers to the variable Hello World

I wanted to print the string value stored in var1 a total of 10 times vertically using the \n command. However I am getting he text var1 rather than the value of var1.

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**Author:** ![Mholscher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/mholscher/32/15325_2.png) [@Mholscher](https://discuss.python.org/u/Mholscher)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/issues-with-printing-the-same-string-multiple-times/9520/2 "2021-07-01T11:15:03Z")

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> [@abbaji](#):
>
> print(10\*var1)

This **almost** does what you want. It is missing the “\n” at the end of the content of var1. Lets add it:

```auto
>>> var1 = "Hello world"
>>> print(10*(var1 + "\n"))
Hello world
Hello world
Hello world
Hello world
Hello world
Hello world
Hello world
Hello world
Hello world
Hello world

>>>

```

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**Author:** ![steven.daprano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/steven.daprano/32/1083_2.png) [@steven.daprano](https://discuss.python.org/u/steven.daprano)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 11:38am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/issues-with-printing-the-same-string-multiple-times/9520/3 "2021-07-01T11:38:31Z")

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Hi Arshad,

`\n` isn’t a command – it is a special escape code for newlines. It  
only works inside a string: outside of a string it is a syntax error.

When you put var1 inside quotation marks, like this:

```
"var1"

```

is no longer refers to the variable, it is just a string like  
“Hello World”.

What you can do is concatenate a newline to the variable `var1`, then  
repeat it ten times:

```
var1 = "Hello World"
print(10*(var1 + "\n"))

```

Notice that we need round brackets (parentheses) to ensure that the  
concatenation occurs before the repeat. If you write this:

```
print(10*var1 + "\n")

```

the string “Hello World” will be repeated 10 times, and then a single  
newline will be concatenated.

One problem with this method is that there is an extra newline at the  
end which you might not want. Instead we can do this:

```
print("\n".join([var1]*10)

```

What this does is:

- `[var1]` constructs a list containing “Hello World”

- `[var1]*10` replicates that ten times, equivalent to:

- `"\n".join(...)` joins those ten strings together with newlines  
between the items.

- And finally `print(...)` does the actual printing.

Here’s another way that we can print something ten times:

```
for i in range(10): print(var1)
```