Store multi-line input into a String (Python)

Question

Input:

359716482
867345912
413928675
398574126
546281739
172639548
984163257
621857394
735492861

my code :

print("Enter the array:\n")   
userInput = input().splitlines()
print(userInput)

my problem here is that, userInput only takes in the first line value but it doesn't seem to take in values after the first line?

Answer 1

You can use readlines() method of file objects:

import sys
userInput = sys.stdin.readlines()

Answer 2

You can easily create one, using generators. Here is one such implementation. Note you can either press a blank return or any Keyboard Interrupt to break out of the inputloop

>>> def multi_input():
    try:
        while True:
            data=raw_input()
            if not data: break
            yield data
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        return


>>> userInput = list(multi_input())
359716482
867345912
413928675
398574126

>>> userInput
['359716482', '867345912', '413928675', '398574126']
>>>