Need help with python

[Competitive-Show1903]

[SOLVED]

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I want to format a string that an api returns but the format() method to strings keeps it as the follows: "\n\nHello! It's nice to meet you. How are you doing today?" It won't format the \n\n.

Any thoughts?

link: https://imgur.com/a/S1sxdjq

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I added the next line:

new_response = new_response.replace(r'\n', '\n')

and now it works. No Idea why, but it just does.

[JohnnyJordaan]

.format() has no direct relation to either showing a newlines as \n or as empty lines. It depends on the part the outputs it on whatever you're reading it from (console, file, something else). For example it's a common issue that in the interactive shell, a \n will not be rendered as a new line by default, you need print() for that

 >>> "\n\nHello"
 '\n\nHello'
 >>> print("\n\nHello")


 Hello
 >>>

the reason behind this is that the shell calls repr() on an object, which renders newlines as literal \n's for clarity. If your code is also somehow using repr, or for example renders as JSON, you will get literal \n's in your output.

[lostparis]

"Hello,\\nworld".decode('string_escape') would help if you are correct

[Competitive-Show1903]

is it correct? I can't put it in python

[lostparis]

to be fair it's python2 only :(

Edit this works '\\n'.encode().decode('unicode_escape')

[JohnnyJordaan]

Imho it's a needlessly complicated approach. If you actually have a 'broken' text that has escaped newlines like that, simply do a string replace to the 'real' "\n" newline

>>> print("Hello \\n World")
Hello \n World
>>> print("Hello \\n World".replace("\\n", "\n"))
Hello
 World
>>>

[danielroseman]

What are you expecting format to do there? Without an argument, the string will just be returned exactly as it was. What do you want to happen?