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Remove \n from triple quoted string in python

I have the following string:

string = """
Hello World
123
HelloWorld
"""

I want to clear all the line-breaks from the string in python.

I tried

string.strip()

But it's not working as desired.

What I should do?

I'm using python 3.3

Thanks.

Solution

  • str.strip removes whitespace from the start and the end of the string.

    >>> string
'\nHello World\n123\nHelloWorld\n'
>>> string.strip()
'Hello World\n123\nHelloWorld'

    If you want to remove the new line characters inside of the string, you can replace them by something else using str.replace:

    >>> string.replace('\n', ' ')
' Hello World 123 HelloWorld '