How can I convert String (with linebreaks) to HTML?

It does not show the \n breaks. this is what I see in a Python interpreter. And I want to convert it to HTML that will add in the line breaks. I was looking around and didn't see any libraries that do this out of the box. I was thinking BeautifulSoup, but wasn't quite sure.

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6 Answers 6

If you have a String that you have readed it from a file you can just replace \n to
, which is a line break in html, by doing:

my_string.replace('\n', '
')

answered Mar 9, 2019 at 16:12 Pablo Martinez Pablo Martinez 459 3 3 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges

You can use the python replace(. ) method to replace all line breaks with the html version
and possibly surround the string in a paragraph tag

. Let's say the name of the variable with the text is text :

html = "" + text.replace("\n", "
") + "
"

answered Mar 9, 2019 at 16:30 Omari Celestine Omari Celestine 1,435 1 1 gold badge 13 13 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges

searching for this answer in found this, witch is likely better because it encodes all characters, at least for python 3 Python – Convert HTML Characters To Strings

# import html import html # Create Text text = 'Γeeks for Γeeks' # It Converts given text To String print(html.unescape(text)) # It Converts given text to HTML Entities print(html.escape(text))

answered Sep 27, 2022 at 8:21 Cedric lacrambe Cedric lacrambe 51 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge

You can use HTML tag.

html = '' + my_string '
' His this is a sample String

You don't need to care about \n or
.

answered Jul 28, 2023 at 7:39 Fanfansmilkyway Fanfansmilkyway 41 3 3 bronze badges

If you want paragraphs (

tags) instead of breaks (
tags), you can use a regex:

import re def text_to_html_paragraphs(text): # First, replace multiple newlines with a single newline, # so you don't get empty paragraphs text = re.sub(r'\n\s*\n', '\n', text) # Split the text into lines lines = text.split('\n') # Wrap each line in a tag and join them return ''.join(f' \n' for line in lines) text = """His this is a sample String""" html_paragraphs = text_to_html_paragraphs(text) print(html_paragraphs)

Result:

is
 a sample
 String