Display string multiple times

I want to print a character or string like ‘-‘ n number of times.

Can I do it without using a loop?.. Is there a function like

print('-',3)

..which would mean printing the - 3 times, like this:

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Answers:

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Method 1

Python 2.x:

print '-' * 3

Python 3.x:

print('-' * 3)

Method 2

The accepted answer is short and sweet, but here is an alternate syntax allowing to provide a separator in Python 3.x.

print(*3*('-',), sep='_')


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