Fredrik Lundh wrote: > John Salerno wrote: > >> If I read a string that contains a newline character(s) into a >> variable, then write that variable to a file, how can I retain those >> newline characters so that the string remains on one line rather than >> spans multiple lines? > > you cannot: the whole point of a newline character is to start a new line. > > however, some file formats let you "escape" the newline. for example, > in Python source code, you can use end a line with a backslash. in CSV, > you can put the string with newlines inside quotes, and Python's "csv" > module knows how to do that: > > import csv, sys > > row = ("One\nTwo\nThree", 1, 2, 3) > > writer = csv.writer(sys.stdout) > writer.writerow(row) > > prints > > "One > Two > Three",1,2,3 > > (not all CSV readers can handle multiline rows, though) > > </F> >
Thanks. I should give the csv module a look too, while I'm at it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list