In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David C. Ullrich 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? > > yes. > > just keep in mind that using eval() on untrusted data isn't a very good > idea. Right. This data comes from me, gets put into a file and then read by me. Someone _could_ corrupt that file, but someone who could do that could more easily just throw the machine out the window... > </F> -- David C. Ullrich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
