How to remove \n and \r from a string

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I currently am trying to get the code from this website: http://netherkingdom.netai.net/pycake.html Then I have a python script parse out all code in html div tags, and finally write the text from between the div tags to a file. The problem is it adds a bunch of \r and \n to the file. How can I either avoid this or remove the \r and \n. Here is my code:

import urllib.request
from html.parser import HTMLParser
import re
page = urllib.request.urlopen('http://netherkingdom.netai.net/pycake.html')
t = page.read()
class MyHTMLParser(HTMLParser):
    def handle_data(self, data):
        print(data)
        f = open('/Users/austinhitt/Desktop/Test.py', 'r')
        t = f.read()
        f = open('/Users/austinhitt/Desktop/Test.py', 'w')
        f.write(t + '\n' + data)
        f.close()
parser = MyHTMLParser()
t = t.decode()
parser.feed(t)

And here is the resulting file it makes:

b'
import time as t\r\n
from os import path\r\n
import os\r\n
\r\n
\r\n
\r\n
\r\n
\r\n'

Preferably I would also like to have the beginning b' and last ' removed. I am using Python 3.5.1 on a Mac.

2 Answers

to remove carriage return:

  • line = line.replace('\r', '')

to remove tab

  • line = line.replace('\t', '')
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