Kuljo wrote: > Kuljo wrote: > >> Dear friends >> I'm so sorry to bore you with this trivial problem. Allthou: I have >> string having 0x0a as new line, but I should have \n instead. >> How should I solve it? >> I've tried >>>>>text_new=tex_old.replace(str(0x0a), '\n') >> and other things, but none of them worked. >> Thanks in advance > > > I have found this in the meantime: > >>>>nl="\\"+"n" >>>>text_new=replace(text_old, chr(10), nl) > > It works.
Thanks Peter, you are right, even >>>text_new=replace(text_old, chr(10), "\\n") works. Yes, it was exactly what I needed. The problem actually was: I'm using Pilot V for years and a part of my "knowledge base" is stored in den memo files. On the PC side I'm using jpilot (Linux Kubuntu 5.04) which works perfectly. Now I wanted to try out kontact (groupware). The shortcoming is that kontact (actually kpilot in the background) does not import the memos. But it store them in a folder as a file per memo. In this file are the cr/lf indicated by hex 0a. The notes in kontact uses char \n instead. For this translation I made a python script which works now. Kind regards Kuljo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
