String concatenation takes place on the next line in python

Question

Python has a simple concatenation using the + operator. But I am observing something unusual.

I tried :

final_path = '/home/user/' + path + '/output'

Where path is a staring variable I want to concatenate.

print final_path

gives me:

/home/user/path
/output

Instead of /home/user/path/output

Why is going to the next line. Is the forward slash causing the issue. I tried using the escape character as well. but It does not work.

Answer 1

From the looks of your code, it may be the variable path that is the problem. Check to see if path has a new line at the end. Escape characters start with a backslash \ and not a forward slash /.

Answer 2

As victor said, your path variable has '\n' added at the end implicitly, so you can do such a trick to overcome the problem:

final_path = '/home/user/' + path.strip('\n') + '/output'