String formatting in selenium/python

Question

I ran selenium chromedriver and did scrap some text from website. Now the problem is text string is not in proper format. The string in the code is: selectDescription.text code:

for link in links:
    print "Navigating to link" + link
    browser.get(link)
    try:
        selectDescription = browser.find_element_by_xpath("(//div[@class='md'])[2]")
        try:
            data['description'].append(selectDescription.text)
        except KeyError:
            data['description'] = [selectDescription.text]
    except NoSuchElementException:
        try:
            data['description'].append("")
        except KeyError:
            data['description'] = [""]
        continue

For example:

this is is bad

text

I want it to be formatted into: this is bad text

How can I do that? Do I have to remove new line before I insert it into my array? I did try searching, but since I am new to python, some of the stuff is just getting over my head. Any help will be highly appreciated.

Should I be using replace method?

could you share a snippet of your code, as I don't know in which array you are trying to save it. — Sebastian Walla, Apr 28 '17 at 05:21
Possible duplicate of [How to remove \n from a list element?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3849509/how-to-remove-n-from-a-list-element) — Steffi Keran Rani J, Apr 28 '17 at 05:30

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 28 '17 at 05:19

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You can do this by calling "some string with \n linebreaks".replace("\n","")

answered Apr 28 '17 at 05:19

Sebastian Walla

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Yes Sebastian, I was able to find this by my own after searching for an hour!! lol. Sometimes simple things are difficult to comprehend, especially when learning a new language. Thanks, your answer does work perfectly in this scenario. – Vipul Mehra Apr 28 '17 at 05:23

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 28 '17 at 05:22

I am sorry to ask this question, but after simply using the replace function I was able to resolve this problem. The code might help some newbie trying their hands on python:

string.replace('\n', ' ')

In my scenario I did: selectDescription.text.replace('\n', ' ') Thanks again :)

String formatting in selenium/python

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