Question

I have a function that can only accept strings. (it creates the image with the string, but the string has little formatting and no word wrapping, so a long string will just bleed right through the edge of the image and keep going into the abyss, when in reality I would have liked it to create a paragraph, instead of a one line infinity).

I need it print with line breaks. Currently the file is being readin using

inputFiles.readlines()

so that this reads the entire file. Storing file.readLines() creates a list. So this list cannot be passed to my function looking for a string.

I used

inputFileContent = ' \n'.join(inputFiles.readLines())

in an attempt to force hard line breaks into the string between each list item. This does not work (edit: elaboration here) which means that the inputFileContent string does not have line breaks even though I put ‘\n’ between the list elements. From my understanding, the readLines() function puts the individual lines into individual elements of a list.

any suggestions? Thank you

Answer 1

The ‘join’ should have worked. Your problem may be that the writing of the string ignores newline characters. You could maybe try ‘\r\n’.join(…)