So I'm writing a script in python that dumps a renderlog to a text file and then emails it to the user inside the body of the message.
I'm using the python read like so:
f=open('filename.txt','r')
f.read()
where f is the file instance. The output I get is not very user readable.
'# \'// Warning: Render view: Selected region is too small // \r\ndefaultPointLight(1, 1,1,1, 0, 0, 0,0,0, 1);\r\nrenderWindowRender redoPreviousRender renderView;\r\n
when I'd much rather have it display like
// Warning: Render view: Selected region is too small //
defaultPointLight(1, 1,1,1, 0, 0, 0,0,0, 1);
renderWindowRender redoPreviousRender renderView;
Is there a simple way to convert the \r and \n to linebreaks in the email?
As a very quick-and-dirty way, you can use .replace(r'\r\n', '\n'), eg:
>>> print '# \'// Warning: Render view: Selected region is too small // \r\ndefaultPointLight(1, 1,1,1, 0, 0, 0,0,0, 1);\r\nrenderWindowRender redoPreviousRender renderView;\r\n'.replace(r'\r\n', '\n')
# '// Warning: Render view: Selected region is too small //
defaultPointLight(1, 1,1,1, 0, 0, 0,0,0, 1);
renderWindowRender redoPreviousRender renderView;
The "r" in the r'\r\n' means, that the string should be understood literally contrary to the '\n', which is the actual linebreak.
(Actually, I don't know what is your platform's linebreak character. Change '\n' accordingly)