SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character in Python

Dung Do Tien Apr 17 2022 323

Hello Guys, I'm just starting to learn Python yesterday. I learn Input/output in Python first. I used print() method to help print many lines as below:

 name = input("Enter your name:")
print("Welcome, " + name + "to Python basic course. \n" \+
        "You need to Identity first, please enter your username: \n")
username = input("")
message = "Authentication failt"
if username == "admin":
    message = "Authentication OK!!!"
print(message)

I feel it's very simple but when running this code I got an error SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character

 File "main.py", line 2
    print("Welcome, " + name + "to Python basic course. \n" \+
                                                             ^
SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character

Not sure why and clear about it. Need someone who can help explain.

I used Python 3.9.9 and Windows 11.

Thanks for any explanation.

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    Mahmoud Samir Apr 17 2022

    To break lines in Python you have to use \ not \+

    Please change line 2 in your code.

     name = input("Enter your name:")
    print("Welcome, " + name + "to Python basic course. \n" \
            "You need to Identity first, please enter your username: \n")
    username = input("")
    message = "Authentication failt"
    if username == "admin":
        message = "Authentication OK!!!"
    print(message)

    #Output

     Enter your name:
    Ether
    Welcome, Etherto Python basic course. 
    You need to Identity first, please enter your username: 
    
    admin
    Authentication OK!!!
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