Any way to add a new line from a string with the '\n' character in flask?

Question

I was playing around with flask when I came across an odd problem with the \'\\n\' character. it dosen\'t seem to have an effect in my browser, I tried putting
in the

Answer 1

So it turns out that flask autoescapes html tags. So adding the
tag just renders them on screen instead of actually creating line breaks.

There are two workarounds to this:

1. Break up the text into an array

   text = text.split('\n')
   

   And then within the template, use a for loop:

   {% for para in text %}
       
   {{para}}
   {% endfor %}
   

2. Disable the autoescaping

   First we replace the \n with
using replace:

   text = text.replace('\n', '
   ')
   

   Then we disable the autoescaping by surrounding the block where we require this with

   {% autoescape false %}
       {{text}}
   {% endautoescape %}
   

   However, we are discouraged from doing this:

   Whenever you do this, please be very cautious about the variables you are using in this block.

I think the first version avoids the vulnerabilities present in the second version, while still being quite easy to understand.