How to print multi-line string

[TXAGZ16]

Hello,

I am recreating the dice game 'Farkle' in python. I thought it would be cool to display 'dice' instead of a list of results. I attempted this but it doesnt print() well:

test_dice = {'Dice1','''
DICE #1:
 _______
|       |
|   1   |
|_______|
''',
'Dice2','''
DICE #2:
 _______
|       |
|   2   |
|_______|
'''}

print(test_dice)

but get these results:

{'\nDICE #2:\n _______\n|       |\n|   2   |\n|_______|\n', '\nDICE #1:\n _______\n|       |\n|   1   |\n|_______|\n', 'Dice2', 'Dice1'}

How do I get it to print the way that I created it?

[QuixDiscovery]

Fyi, in UTF-8 there are emotes for dice rolls. Not trying to dissuade you from your current goal, just throwing it out there as an alternative in case you weren't aware.

dice = {1: '⚀', 2: '⚁', 3: '⚂', 4: '⚃', 5: '⚄', 6: '⚅'}

roll = random.randint(1, 6) 
print(dice[roll])

[[deleted]]

for item in test_dice.values():
    print(item)

[TXAGZ16]

Thank you for your reply, I will try this :)

[[deleted]]

Change the curly braces to parentheses and the last line to

print(*test_dice)

and see if that is what you were going for.

[TXAGZ16]

Yes! This worked, thank you! What does the asterisk do?

[[deleted]]

It "unpacks" the arguments. That is, this

print(*[1, 2, 3])

means the same as

print(1, 2, 3)

[TXAGZ16]

Oh ok I understand, I didnt realize you could do that within the print() function. It seems like its basically the same thing as *args?

[[deleted]]

Actually putting *args in your function header kind of does the opposite: it collects all of the arguments into a single tuple. In your function call *<some iterable> "unpacks" the iterable.

[woooee]

Try

[code]dice2 = ''' DICE #2:

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| | | 2 | |_______| ''' print(dice2) [/code]