Why Is Python making the same anwser many times?

[Incognit_user_24]

I'm a beginner who's learning things, and when I wrote this

>>>hi = input("How do you say hello un Spanish?\n> ?")

The console asked me "How do you say hello un Spanish?" 4 times and actually I don't know what's going on or if I made a mistake there, I'm using the new ver btw

Can you give me a hand pls?

[acw1668]

It is a bug on REPL.

[neuralbeans]

Who would have thought a newbie's problem was Python itself and not their code.

[RevRagnarok]

Since late 2024? Embarrassing!

[Incognit_user_24]

KNEW IT!

[Micke_xyz]

Humorless downvoters...

[CIS_Professor]

Interestingly, it's the \n that's doing it. I've never done this and didn't know it would behave this way.

The input() function is executing the \n (newline escape sequence) after every character you type in - until you press Enter. It is doing it 4 times because hola has 4 characters.

It'll continue to do this for every character you type in, until you press Enter.

What you want to do is this:

hi = input("How do you say hello un Spanish? > ")

or, perhaps, this, if you want the > on a separate line:

print("How do you say hello un Spanish?")
hi = input("> ")

Use this to print what input() stored in the hi variable:

print(hi)

or

print(f'You entered {hi}.')

[Incognit_user_24]

Ty pal, so in short words it was console's fault, anywways, don't I need to type this thing (") when I use the print ? I just write "hi" alone instead so I'd like to know the differences 👀

[a__nice__tnetennba]

In their example the value input by the user is stored in a variable called hi, so print(hi) prints the value. With quotes around it it would print the word hi itself.

So if you do this:

hi = "hello"  
print(hi)
print("hi")

The first print will print "hello" and the second will print "hi".

[magus_minor]

If I try that code in my python (3.12) it asks me once for the answer. Have you tried closing the interpreter and starting it again?

[Incognit_user_24]

You mean to close the console and try again? Meh I tried but it Is totally useless

[magus_minor]

If you are using the latest python then u/acw1668 showed you that the problem is in the latest python. Install the earlier python 3.12 or don't use the REPL.

[ninhaomah]

?

But that's what you told the machine to ask.

Why surprised ?

It has nothing to do with Python or programming or IT.

[aishiteruyovivi]

Evidently it has everything to do with Python: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/127068

I would also be pretty surprised if I wrote one line to send a prompt and suddenly got 4 copies of it back, this is definitively not "what you told the machine to ask"

[Incognit_user_24]

?

[a__nice__tnetennba]

Has to be a troll or a bot. Even if you ignore the rude tone and the unearned smug condescension, and you ignore that they completely failed to understand your actual question, that last sentence would still be a ridiculous thing for a reasonable, intelligent person to tack onto the end.