What happens if i multiply a string by a negative number🤔🤔

Question

Ace: Fixed for language tag

Answer 1

I believe a possible behind-the-scenes for the multiplication in question looks like:

res=""
for i in range(number):
res+=string
print(res)

Since range(number) has nothing when number<=0, res is just a blank.

Answer 2

Try it. It will not output anything.
Like if you multiply a string with 0,it results in "No output".
Same case here...
It will not output anything

Answer 3

Amith Mathew

Yeah good question.

Multiplying a string by a number is called replication in python.

And for replication there are some conditions like
1. One of two data types must be String and the second one must be a Natural number.

If we try to replicate a string by multiplying it by an another string then it will throw an error.

But what if we multiply it by a negative number. Lets see

If we multiply a negative number or zero to string then it will return an empty string and the output screen will show
No output

Let's do it practically now

https://code.sololearn.com/csM9wVmZXmMU/?ref=app

I hope it helped you.

For any querry mention me .

Thank you.

Answer 4

Thank you Prometheus

Answer 5

If you do
a = "this"
print(a* -2)

>>>
#prints nothing
Same is with *0, *-1, *-2 and so on.

Answer 6

Rishab, Akshay,Ace thanks guys appreciate it

Answer 7

It prints nothing, basically an empty string!