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Asked: 2026-06-16T01:41:02+00:00

I have a text file that I want to read in my cgi script

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I have a text file that I want to read in my cgi script that will appear with a new line in between each line but it is just coming up as one huge wall of text. I cant figure out where to put ‘\n’. I have tried multiple locations but none work. Here is my code.

cgitb.enable()

form = cgi.FieldStorage()

keyword = form.getvalue('keyword')

f = open('%s.txt' %keyword, 'r')

print 'Content-type: text/html\r\n\r'
print '<html>'
print '<title> keyword + "tweets" </title>'
print f.readlines()
print '</html>'

f.close()
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  1. Editorial Team

    By default, HTML treats newline characters as if they were whitespace. Convert those into <br> elements, or wrap your text in a <pre> element, or make sure white-space handling in CSS is appropriate.

    Also, print f.readlines.join('\n') or print f.read() (or print f.readlines().join('<br>') if you go with the first choice); otherwise you should be getting the repr for the list.

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