simple string question

[Sean DiZazzo]

On Sep 6, 10:29 pm, "jwither" <jwit... at sxder4kmju.com> wrote:
> Given a string (read from a file) which contains raw escape sequences,
> (specifically, slash n), what is the best way to convert that to a parsed
> string, where the escape sequence has been replaced (specifically, by a
> NEWLINE token)?
>
> James Withers

I believe "\n" is a newline.  As is "\r\n" and "\r".  Choose your
demon.

mystring = mystring.replace("\n", demon)

FYI.  If you are reading from a file, you can iterate over the lines
without having to worry about newlines:

fi = open(path_to_file, 'r')

for line in fi:
    process_line(line)

~Sean