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MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jul 23, 4:04 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?
> >
> Might I suggest you use encode and decode instead?
Ah, you certainly might! Seems exactly right, thanks.
Many years ago I thought I had some idea of what was available
in Python - these days it's full of all this neat stuff I never
heard of...
> >>> 'first line\nsecond line'.encode('string-escape')
> 'first line\\nsecond line'
> >>> _.decode('string-escape')
> 'first line\nsecond line'
> >>> u'first line\nsecond line'.encode('unicode-escape')
> 'first line\\nsecond line'
> >>> _.decode('unicode-escape')
> u'first line\nsecond line'
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