Question

I have some text data that is printing out the actual characters “\r\n” (so four characters total). I’d like to replace those four characters with the single “\n” character, but I can’t seem to make Python do it for me. I’m currently trying:

mytext.replace("\r\n", "\n")

But that just prints out “\n” (two characters, not one). I feel like I’m probably missing something obvious, but any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I would recommend using splitlines instead of a regex or search/replace

"\n".join(mytext.splitlines())