Poor Yorick wrote: > > > Aurelio Magalhaes Dias wrote: > >> I think what he wants is like: >> >>>>> text = "something\\nto print" >>>>> text = text.replace('\\n','\n') >>>>> print text >>>>> >> something >> to print >> > In which case, the proper code would be: Oops! Sorry for coming from the department of redundancy department on that last email! Poor Yorick gp@pooryorick.com