new line

[Kuljo]

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

[Claudio Grondi]

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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

text_new=tex_old.replace(chr(0x0a), '\r\n')
works for me.

Claudio
P.S. str(0x0a) == '10'

[Robert Kern]

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.

In [9]: '\x0a'
Out[9]: '\n'

They're the same thing.

--
Robert Kern
rk***@ucsd.edu

"In the fields of hell where the grass grows high
Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
-- Richard Harter

[Kuljo]

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.

[Peter Hansen]

Kuljo wrote:

Kuljo wrote:

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.

I have found this in the meantime:nl="\\"+"n"
Note: this is unnecessary. You could just do nl='\\n' instead, and you
don't need the variable "nl" either, which by the way is confusingly
named. Your variable "nl" is actually bound to the two character
sequence \ followed by n instead of a "newline". Is that really what
you wanted?
text_new=replace(text_old, chr(10), nl)
This use of replace() is deprecated. Use text_old.replace() instead.

It works.

For some definitions of "works". This only works if you wanted the
*single* character represented by '\x0a' to turn into the *two*
characters backslash-followed-by-letter-n. The following you might find
instructive:
old = 'some\x0atext'
old 'some\ntext' print old some
text old.encode('string-escape') 'some\\ntext' print old.encode('string-escape')

some\ntext

This will turn other control characters into their equivalent
two-character escaped representation as well, such as \t and \r, as
necessary.

-Peter

[Kuljo]

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