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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>
Subject: Re: OT: Python help
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:25:52 +0200
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On Jul 20, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Puneeth wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>  
> wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 20, 2010, at 1:03 PM, Giovanni Ridolfi wrote:
>>
>>> Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>> a python question:  How do I prefix every line in a multiline  
>>>> string
>>>> with a string.  For example, I would like to add "> " before all  
>>>> lines
>>>> in a string....
>>>
>>> how about replacing "\n" with "\n > " ?
>>
>> Please show me the full line of code, I am currently editing a  
>> python script
>> without any knowledge of python...
>
> my_string = "Hello\nWorld"
> my_new_string = my_string.replace("\n", "\n> ")

Thanks, that does work.

- Carsten