repr(string)

[Guilherme Polo]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:04 PM, David C. Ullrich <dullrich at sprynet.com> wrote:
> I've been saving data in a file with one line per field.
> Now some of the fields may become multi-line strings...
>
> I was about to start escaping and unescaping linefeeds
> by hand, when I realized that repr() and eval() should
> do. Hence the question: If s is a string, is repr(s)
> guaranteed not to contain line breaks?

In the sense that line breaks are quoted ? Yes, repr does that.

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