I'm facing difficulties when converting the below string to a list and back again. I want it to preserve the line endings, which uses pythons triple parenthesis (""") to encapsulate a Shakespearean verse. The verse is:
fullText= """Hamlet's Soliloquay - Act III Scene i
To QUIZ or not to Be, that is the QUIZ:
Whether tis nobler in the QUIZ to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous QUIZ,
Or to take Arms against a QUIZ of troubles,
And by opposing end them: to die, to QUIZ"""
When using print fullText the result is as expected. But when I convert this to a list with fullText.split() and back again with " ".join(fullText) the result is a string with all words on one line.
I know this is normal behaviour, but I can't figure out if there is any way to preserve the line endings.
Obviously I am building a shakespeare quiz asking the user to replace all instances of QUIZ with the correct word!
Use splitlines() instead of split() and join on newlines (as @PM 2Ring suggested) with "\n".join():
>>> print "\n".join(fullText.splitlines())
Hamlet's Soliloquay - Act III Scene i
To QUIZ or not to Be, that is the QUIZ:
Whether tis nobler in the QUIZ to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous QUIZ,
Or to take Arms against a QUIZ of troubles,
And by opposing end them: to die, to QUIZ
You can achieve the same exact thing with split if you split on \n:
>>> print "\n".join(fullText.split('\n'))
Hamlet's Soliloquay - Act III Scene i
To QUIZ or not to Be, that is the QUIZ:
Whether tis nobler in the QUIZ to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous QUIZ,
Or to take Arms against a QUIZ of troubles,
And by opposing end them: to die, to QUIZ