On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:04 PM, David C. Ullrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been saving data in a file with one line per field. > Now some of the fields may become multi-line strings... > > I was about to start escaping and unescaping linefeeds > by hand, when I realized that repr() and eval() should > do. Hence the question: If s is a string, is repr(s) > guaranteed not to contain line breaks?
In the sense that line breaks are quoted ? Yes, repr does that. > > -- > David C. Ullrich > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list