How can i protect text format ?

[Amit Khemka]

On 10/23/07, Abandoned <besturk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi..
> I want to do a forum with python but i have a problem..
>
> I have a <textarea> and i write:
> line 1 hi
> line 2 how r u
>
> And then i save to this database ( colomn data type is text)
> And than it looks "line 1 hi line 2 how r u"..
> How can i protect \n characters ?

I don't think the issue has anything to do with python.

I guess while you are displaying the text into an HTML page the "\n"
characters should be replaced by "<br />" to appear as newlines.

Cheers,
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Amit Khemka