换行符被Python忽略

Question

When I'm trying to write a string b'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> \\n<response list="true">\\n <audio>\\n <aid>412317542</aid>\\n ... to a new .xml file, it gets written as a single line , ignoring all \\n characters.

Why is it happening, and how do I get several lines ?

My code:

page = urlopen(url)
html = page.read()    # Here I get the xml data
with open('output.xml', 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
    f.write(str(html))

Answer 1

Your string looks like is bytes object , so you should use bytes.decode() , not just str() :

page = urlopen(url)
html = page.read()    # Here I get the xml data

with open('output.xml', 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
    f.write(html.decode(page.headers.get_content_charset()))