Getting escape sequences from user-input in python

Asked Jan 13 '22 at 08:47

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I'm trying to make a program to write a file from user-input, but for some reason when I use \n in input it doesn't work as a newline, it's considered a string instead.

Code: (at the moment the program just prints the user-input)

print(input("> "))

User-input:

"\nHello\nWorld!\n"

Expected output:

Hello
World!

Output:

\nHello\nWorld!\n

asked Jan 13 '22 at 08:47

Giuseppe Nonna

Escape sequences are only processed in string literals, not in data. – Barmar Jan 13 '22 at 08:49
Is there a way to do what I'm trying to do? – Giuseppe Nonna Jan 13 '22 at 08:50
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14820429/how-do-i-decodestring-escape-in-python3 – Lei Yang Jan 13 '22 at 08:54
Thanks a lot, exactly what I was looking for – Giuseppe Nonna Jan 13 '22 at 09:00

Getting escape sequences from user-input in python

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