Add a new line before displaying multiline strings in the Qt console.

Closes ipythongh-510
takluyver · Jun 10, 2011 · 4066b42 · 4066b42
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diff --git a/IPython/frontend/qt/console/ipython_widget.py b/IPython/frontend/qt/console/ipython_widget.py
@@ -184,6 +184,10 @@ def _handle_pyout(self, msg):
                 self._append_plain_text(self.output_sep)
                 self._append_html(self._make_out_prompt(prompt_number))
                 text = data['text/plain']
+                # If the repr is multiline, make sure we start on a new line,
+                # so that its lines are aligned.
+                if "\n" in text and not self.output_sep.endswith("\n"):
+                    self._append_plain_text('\n')
                 self._append_plain_text(text + self.output_sep2)
 
     def _handle_display_data(self, msg):