How to change a vertical string to a horizontal string in python?

Question

I have tried using those script but they don't work. (x is a vertical variable)

print "".join(x.split())

and

x.replace("\n", "")

(try to explain your answer if you can) SAMPLE INPUT-OUTPUT: Input:

• H
• E
• L
• L
• O

Output: HELLO ABC

Answer 1

input=(a\nb\nc\nd\nA\nB\nC\n) #<---Vertical text

result=input.replace("\n", "") #Convert the vertical text to horizontal text

print(result) #Print the horizontal text

Output: abcABC

100% working for my program