Question

This feels like it should be an easy one, but I’m having trouble cleaning out the newline character in content pasted from Microsoft Word. Not a full line-break, but the CTRL ENTER character that shows up as a return arrow in Word. I’ve tried chr(10), chr(13), \u000D, \u000A and a few others, but I can’t match it in a string.replace(). Should I be looking for a different character or do I need to use something other than the string.replace method?

Answer 1

Run this:

print repr(mystringobject)

That will give a hint of which character you want to remove.

If still no clue, paste the result of the command above in the question, and I’ll edit my answer.