How to print list items which contain new line?

Question

These commands:

l = [\"1\\n2\"]    
print(l)

print

[\'1\\n2\']

I want to print

[\'1
2\']
         


        

Answer 1

Only if you are printing the element itself (or each element) and not the whole list:

>>> a = ['1\n2']
>>> a
['1\n2']
>>> print a
['1\n2']
>>> print a[0]
1
2

When you try to just print the whole list, it prints the string representation of the list. Newlines belong to individual elements so get printed as newlines only when print that element. Otherwise, you will see them as \n.