Replace '\n' with whitespace in Python

Question

I have a text file that has the following output after pulling information from a device:

DeviceName\n ModelName\n ModelVersion\n

I'm trying to remove the leading '\n' after each output and put in spacing between each of the specifications above but to no success. My code is as follows:

f = open(FileName, 'r')
filedata = f.read()
nremove = filedata.replace('\n', '   ')
f = open(FileName, 'w')
f.write(nremove)
f.close()

This code works for other strings I've removed in the same text file successfully, but when trying to remove the '\n', I get no success.

How can this be altered to remove from the text file?

Jansora · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-12 02:02:40Z

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you need to escape '\n'. just change nremove = filedata.replace('\n', ' ') to nremove = filedata.replace('\\n', ' ') . it's ok.

answered May 12, 2020 at 2:02

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