pythonstringviewgoogle-colaboratoryabide

Problem with viewing string output in Google Colab


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I was supposed to obtain an output like this when i run the command 'print(abide.description)' But the output I am obtaining is something like this. The entire string is shown in a single line which is making it quite difficult to read and interpret. How can I obtain the output as the picture above?

My code snippet:

print(abide.description)

The output: enter image description here


Solution

  • The issue is that abide.description is returning bytes rather than a string. If you want it to print as a normal string, you can use the bytes.decode() method to convert the bytes to a unicode string.

    For example:

    content_bytes = b'this is a byte string\nand it will not be wrapped\nunless it is first decoded'
    
    print(content_bytes)
    # b'this is a byte string\nand it will not be wrapped\nunless it is first decoded'
    
    print(content_bytes.decode())
    # this is a byte string
    # and it will not be wrapped
    # unless it is first decoded