Replace \n with <br />

Question

I'm parsing text from file with Python. I have to replace all newlines (\n) with
cause this text will build html-content. For example, here is some line from file:

'title\n' 

Now I do:

thatLine.replace('\n', '<br />') print thatLine 

And I still see the text with newline after it.

Answer 1

thatLine = thatLine.replace('\n', '<br />')

str.replace() returns a copy of the string, it doesn't modify the string you pass in.