On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 5:49 PM, idy <idhay...@gmail.com> wrote: > Error = > 'XYC.12345455LOcation/user/data/MYGLE-INGXYC.23344566LOcation/user/data/INGE-FTYXYC.22334566LOcation/user/data/GETN-YUNXYC.12345455LOcation/user/data/MYGLE-INGXYC.1111111LOcation/user/data/INGE-FTYXYC.3333333LOcation/user/data/GETN-YUN' > > I need to write this to mail body as with following format in multiple lines > > XYC.12345455-LOcation/user/data/MYGLE-ING > XYC.23344566-LOcation/user/data/INGE-FTY > XYC.22334566LOcation/user/data/GETN-YUN > XYC.12345455LOcation/user/data/MYGLE-ING > XYC.1111111LOcation/user/data/INGE-FTY > XYC.3333333LOcation/user/data/GETN-YUN
You want to break the line immediately before the 'XYC'? That's quite easy; the line break is a character like any other, and can be used in a replace() call: formatted_error = Error.replace("XYC","\nXYC") If that's not the case, can you clarify what you need to do to divide it? Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list