Python and Line Breaks

Question

With Python I know that the \"\\n\" breaks to the next line in a string, but what I am trying to do is replace every \",\" in a string with a \'\\n\'. Is that possible? I am kin

Answer 1

You can insert a literal \n into your string by escaping the backslash, e.g.

>>> print '\n'; # prints an empty line

>>> print '\\n'; # prints \n
\n

The same principle is used in regular expressions. Use this expresion to replace all , in a string with \n:

>>> re.sub(",", "\\n", "flurb, durb, hurr")
'flurb\n durb\n hurr'