I have the following code:
age = raw_input("How old are you? ")
height = raw_input("How tall are you? ")
weight = raw_input("How much do you weigh? ")
print " So, you're %r old, %r tall and %r heavy." %(age, height, weight)
Ok so the raw_input function can standard output without a trailing newline. The function then reads a line from input, converts it to a string (stripping a trailing newline), and returns that.
What I don't understand is why every prompt message is presented on a new line since raw_input only returns a string. It doesn't add a newline and I don't have any \n in the code.
When you type a response to the raw_input() you finish by entering a newline. Since each character you enter is also displayed as you type, the newline shows up as well.
If you modified the python builtins and changed raw_input you could get it to terminate on '.' instead of '\n'. An interaction might look like:
How old are you? 12.How tall are you? 12.How much do you weigh? 12. So you're ...