Ignoring or removing line breaks python
Solution 1
Use the replace
method:
myString = myString.replace("\n", "")
For example:
>>> s = """
test
test
test
"""
>>> s.replace("\n", "")
'testtesttest'
>>> s
'\ntest\ntest\ntest\n' # warning! replace does not alter the original
Solution 2
>>> myString = """a
... b
... c
... d
... e"""
>>> ''.join(myString.splitlines())
'abcde'
John
Updated on July 15, 2022Comments
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John almost 2 years
I'm sorry for the noobish question, but none of the answers I've looked at seem to fix this. I'd like to take a multi-line string like this:
myString = """a b c d e"""
And get a result that looks like or that is at least interpreted as this:
myString = "abcde"
myString.rstrip(), myString.rstrip(\n), and myString.rstrip(\r) don't seem to change anything when I print this little "abcde" test string. Some of the other solutions I've read involve entering the string like this:
myString = ("a" "b" "c")
But this solution is impractical because I'm working with very large sets of data. I need to be able to copy a dataset and paste it into my program, and have python remove or ignore the line breaks.
Am I entering something in wrong? Is there an elegant solution to this? Thanks in advance for your patience.
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ZAD-Man over 9 yearsThat semicolon hurts my eyes.